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No shit. President draft dodger.
I've probably watched every episode a half dozen times on Netflix. I'm binging Curb Your Enthusiasm these days.
As far as I know, it was used to quite a degree just to wake the soldiers up, so they could focus on the task at hand.
It was also used in the movie 12 O'Clock High as well and is well quoted in the 8th Air Force records.
My Dad was 19 when he landed on June 9, D+3.
He’d be 99 years old if he was still alive.
By the next June 9th he was a 20 year old Master Sergeant.
Miss you Dad! 🇺🇸
He’d be 99 years old if he was still alive.
By the next June 9th he was a 20 year old Master Sergeant.
Miss you Dad! 🇺🇸
That is crazy movement in rank. But those were the times. People died or got injured and you had to take your best junior enlisted and junior officers and move them up quickly.
the Soviets were a lot more than a punching a bag. Before 2/1/45, or that is to the Germans began the mass surrenders to end the war, 8/10 German KIA, WIA, MIA, & POW were lost on the Eastern Front. During the Battle of Normandy the average age of a German soldier was 31 & the German Army was issuing pay in 17 different languages in main part due to the millions of casualties in the East. On top of that for every soldier the Germans had in the West on D-Day the Germans had three in the East.
it's insane to think when Hitler invaded Poland the Army, plus National Guard but excluding the Air component was 300,000 in 6 divisions. By the time of Pearl Harbor 1,400,000 & 30 divisions. By the time Japan surrendered a total of 9,000,000 had served with a total of 89 divisions having been formed.
My dad was D-Day +4. He was a T7 Sergeant; head surgical medic in an Army field hospital before they called them MASH units. Incoming casualty triage was tough. He had no medical training before the war. His Colonel and head surgeon recommended that he go to medical school when he got out of the service, but he wasn’t up for it.
My Grandfather was a commander of a PT boat on D-Day +3 or 4.
He knew John F. Kennedy in the Navy. He said JFK was "the rich kid."
CSB.
He knew John F. Kennedy in the Navy. He said JFK was "the rich kid."
CSB.
Rich kid that probably could have gotten out of service, ehem bone spurs. Actually he did have Addison's disease, so he would have been a justifiable deferment.
But that is the type of stuff I would love to take down to write a book. I'm too late for WW2 Vets, probably Korean as well. Vietnam vets as well. But that has been covered pretty well. If any of you haven't read "The Things They Carried"....I'll buy you a copy
Yeah.
Unfortunately, my Grandfather died in 1999. I saw him die peacefully in his bed.
My Uncle knows more about his service than I do.
This segment was on World News Tonight today....always get a little dust in my eye when I watch stories about these guys.
Losing 132 WW2 vets a day and that number will continue to dwindle til none are left....it's sobering.
Uncle was one of the 101 airborne that was dropped way off course, captured a few days later after as they attempted to work their way back to the front lines.
Military first reported him as MIA, couple weeks later changed it to KIA - family had a funeral for him, his obituary was put in the paper and his brother was held back from being deployed. His troop was eventually in the Battle of the Bulge.
Few days later his status was changed to captured and in a camp.
He returned home after they liberated his camp and rarely, if ever talked about what he experienced til very late in his life.
Losing 132 WW2 vets a day and that number will continue to dwindle til none are left....it's sobering.
Uncle was one of the 101 airborne that was dropped way off course, captured a few days later after as they attempted to work their way back to the front lines.
Military first reported him as MIA, couple weeks later changed it to KIA - family had a funeral for him, his obituary was put in the paper and his brother was held back from being deployed. His troop was eventually in the Battle of the Bulge.
Few days later his status was changed to captured and in a camp.
He returned home after they liberated his camp and rarely, if ever talked about what he experienced til very late in his life.
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Code Name: Emerald
Feature Film • 1985
In 1944, a double agent infiltrates occupied Paris to ensure the Allied plot to invade Normandy.8:00 AM
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The Americanization of Emily
Feature Film • 1964
A Navy officer (James Garner) wines and dines a London widow (Julie Andrews).10:00 AM
George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey
Feature Film • 1984
George Stevens Jr. chronicles his father's career as cameraman, photographer and Hollywood director.12:00 PM
36 Hours
Feature Film • 1964
Disguised Nazi (Rod Taylor) seeks D-Day data from drugged U.S. major (James Garner).2:00 PM
Red Ball Express
Feature Film • 1952
An Army lieutenant (Jeff Chandler) and his men truck supplies to Patton's tanks.3:30 PM
D-Day, the Sixth of June
Feature Film • 1956
A married U.S. officer invades Normandy with his London girlfriend's gallant British fiance.5:30 PM
George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin
Special • 1994
Filmmaker George Stevens Jr. shares his father's footage of the last few months of World War II.6:30 PM
Overlord
Feature Film • 1975
Follows young British soldier (Brian Stirner) from induction to D-Day.8:00 PM
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Saving Private Ryan
Feature Film • 1998
WWII soldiers (Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore) risk all to send another home.11:00 PM
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The Longest Day
Feature Film • 1962
Allied forces prepare for and participate in the D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War II.
I had four uncles that served in WWII. Two participated in D-day. A third was in Italy. My other uncle served in the Pacific theatre. Amazingly they all survived the war. Each had numerous medals but never spoke of the war. No one talked about PTSD back then.
D-day was a testament of determination and sacrifice. God Bless those who made the ultimate sacrifice and God Bless America!
Amazing the Google Doodle for June 6th is recognizing some woman for leading the gay rights movement. We should never forget D-day, this should be a day that we always recognize. Sad.
D-day was a testament of determination and sacrifice. God Bless those who made the ultimate sacrifice and God Bless America!
Amazing the Google Doodle for June 6th is recognizing some woman for leading the gay rights movement. We should never forget D-day, this should be a day that we always recognize. Sad.
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When my dad was stationed at Rhein-Main AFB 83-85 we lived in off base, military apartment housing (one exit down the Autobahn from the base). There were woods adjacent that we played war in as kids, and there were still plenty of bomb craters among the rows of planted pines.
Pointe du Hoc is amazing. If you go to Normandy, make sure to include it.
They died....so animals like this can run our streets and breech very the safety and security their sacrifice provided. Beat a liberal today, to honor WW II Vets everywhere!
The wife's grandpa might have bumped into your grandpa. He went into Normandy in a glider 80 years and a few hours ago.
If Stalin hadn't murdered his best generals and spies he might have believed the reports that Hitler was going to move on the USSR
The Longest Day is a great watch. The shots of the French attacking the Casino by the canal is impressive
Yeah, Rommel's asparagus, large vertical posts planted in the ground on potential landing fields, were a major deterrent.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/7-clever-innovations-used-on-d-day#:~:text=Inland%2C%20Rommel%20also%20designed%20a,were%20nicknamed%20'Rommel's%20Asparagus'.
That is one of my favorite parts as well. I have it set up to record even though I have probably seen it over 10 times.
And the book is still one of the best books about that day.
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Fortunately the British attack on Pegasus Bridge went as perfectly as it possible could-check out the gliders parked next to each other!
He seemed to catch a lot of grief for some of his remarks later in life, but he was a very brave man. He would fly with the 8th Air Force on some of their bombing raids early in the war while writing for The Stars and Stripes. Some of these reporters would be killed on various missions.
One other notable reporter of those missions who did survive was Walter Cronkite, who went on to become one of CBS's most famous news anchormen.
The woman that headed the US code breakers in Washington DC was Gay so it probably would be appropriate to also think of her and her mostly women team today.
We should be thinking of them for what they did for the war effort,.. her gayness has nothing to do with anything.
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Moms brother, an uncle i was close to joined up when he was 16, and I was 24 days old when he rushed the beach on D-Day and went through the war without a scratch. He was a trainer in ALA. during the Korea war. We met up in Nam while both of us was serving there. Bud was a chopper pilot on his last tour before retiring . Well Agent Orange, took his life 7 years later. He led a remarkable life and I still miss him. He had 2 brothers who served in the Navy during the war.
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That's really neat. We went to Omaha and Utah Beaches. Visited the American cemetery, Overlord Museum, Pointe-du-Hoc, St-Marie-du-Mont, The Capt. Winters and 101st Memorial/Statues... and the Battle of Normandie Museum in Bayeux. Stayed in a cute little BnB right near Omaha Beach. It was so beautiful and serene. Crazy to think 80 years ago it was absolute chaos and destruction.
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