77 years ago on this day operation overlord

[Duncanpup]

Fine Americans and our allies to those who lost their lives or were wounded or who made it through the war we remember you and the sacrifices , the women and men that put their lives on hold either willingly or unwillingly to save our world.

The greatest generation.

[captain queeg]

1. I recently read a book of the German perspective

As you can imagine they were stunned. Besides the enormity it was interesting to hear what really surprised them. No horses were mentioned by many. We have been shown so many pictures of the German mechanized army but in reality the vast majority were on foot and used horses extensively. Another thing that amazed them were the DD Sherman tanks that came directly ashore and entered combat after swimming in.

[multigraincracker]

2. The greatest generation, indeed.

Anti-Fa group that saved us from Hitler.

[hlthe2b]

3. To my late father and Uncles and all who fought & lived a life of honor.

May their spirits somehow help us return to a nation of truth, courage, and staunch belief in democracy.

[NoMoreRepugs]

15. Right there with you.

Sacrifice and honor.

[sarchasm]

4. And now for all that to be undone by a rogue GQP ...

… and their conspiracy minded constituents.

[trusty elf]

7. ...

[sarchasm]

8. lol! Good one!

… seems about right.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. LOL, yes the guy who bragged he would run toward the shootings and stop them cold.

Great photos, newly discovered are destined to lead Twitter

#TrumpDDay

Leader of the Free Golf Cart

[keithbvadu2]

5. My friend N... 101st Airborne. Parachuted in.

My friend N... 101st Airborne. Parachuted in.

D-Day, N's day. In the few days after D-Day, N said he and a buddy chanced upon some bar in a small town. The patrons kept asking 'did you capture this town, that town, some town over there?' 'Oui' was the answer followed by a drink. By the time they had liberated half of France they were in poor shape when they walked out.

[Duncanpup]

6. I love this post thank you

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Even those who survived

were impacted by the war. Those who lived through the Great Depression and WWII learned to be docile to some extent, they were not in control of their lives entirely no matter how successful, world and national events were larger than them.

[Cozmo]

11. I planned the reunions for many of these brave men and women throughout the years

I was proud to have known them and to have heard the stories that they told me. A special thanks to our code talkers.

[ewagner]

12. A relative by marriage...

was a Captain in the Rangers who scaled Point Du Hoc under constant machine gun fire.

Six years ago I got to spend an entire afternoon with him while he answered every question I could ask. He was just one of a very, very special group of men

He passed away two years ago and was given a full, military, burial in Arlington National Cemetery including having his casket carried on a horse-drawn cason.

I am forever grateful I got to know him and relieved that day with him. It solidified my appreciation for what he and others endured to free Europe from Fascists....and stop their spread throughout the world.

[Duncanpup]

13. Awesome

[FeelingBlue]

14. If you have a chance,

Go to the WWII Museum in New Orleans on June 6. On this day, every year, they open up the Higgins boat to visitors. You can enter it and sit, listening to a docent describe the boat and the experience of landing that day on the edge of Europe. The Museum is amazing, too.

Our National WWII Museum is in New Orleans?! I do not know why it’s there.

[Doc Sportello]

16. Historians and authors Stephen Ambrose and Nick Mueller

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/about-us/our-team/museum-founders-stephen-ambrose-and-nick-mueller

Ambrose is the author of Band of Brothers, which the tv series is based on.

[MiHale]

17. My uncle was an Army photographer...

Those photographs he brought back and entered into his private collection were really hard to look at. We were not allowed as kids to view them but I snuck them out and studied them.
My dad destroyed them after he caught me.

They inspired me to join, entered the Army thinking we were going to put an end to all that war crap. It kinda didn’t turn out that way.

[Duncanpup]

20. Never turns out the way we want

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[The Jungle 1]

18. Dad

So this morning my father put on 100 pounds of equipment and waddled to a C-47 cigar tube. Took a flight across the channel and stepped out of that plane and floated to earth. Then the shit storm started.

[Duncanpup]

19. Those guys were studs

[Mysterian]

21. My dad and two uncles served in Europe in WWII

Uncle Clark was killed; Uncle Ward lost a leg to a mortar shell; my dad was in Czechoslovakia when the war ended and made it home in one piece.