re: 75th Anniversary of Operation Overlord and Operation Neptune.

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My wife and son are there right now for the 75th ceremony. They’re sending me pics. If I can figure out how to load them I will.

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Please do.

5 June 1944

The Pathfinders are currently getting their final briefing before donning their parachutes and equipment.

Pathfinders

Some of the Pathfinders exited their aircraft at an altitude of only 300 feet, because of the low cloud cover over the drop zones.

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Anyone know how to load pics on here from your phone? I’m a dumbass. I’ll admit it.

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You can email them to me and ill upload them

lsupride87@yahoo.com

WOW.. What a great story...

If anyone cares... I took a pic from my map..

Pre'tot is circled.. It is located about 10 miles off Utah Beach.

St. Mere Eglise is underlined.

Yes. I could have google mapped it... But I didn;t. Look at the detail of the roads leading to utah beach.. all the little dots are Beach obstacles.

If you ask me... The worst part of D-Day. Was that the Bombers Missed the beaches in their aerial bombardment. When the first wave hit the beach, the bomb craters they could have used for protection were just not there, but the mines and obstacles still were.

Rest in Peace Lt. Williams. You are remembered.

This is so awesome: a 97 year old World War II veteran parachuted into France today 75 years after he did it on D-Day.

97-year-old WWII veteran parachutes over Normandy






U.S. World War II D-Day veteran Tom Rice, from Coronado, California, parachutes in a tandem jump into a field in Carentan, Normandy, France, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. Approximately 200 parachutists participated in the jump over Normandy on Wednesday, replicating a jump made by U.S. soldiers on June 6, 1944 as a prelude to the seaborne invasions on D-Day.

Night time, 5 June 1944.

South of Caen, defense sector of the 25th Panzer Grenadier Regiment of the 21st Panzer Division.

Colonel Hans von Luck, Commander, 25 PzG Regiment, telephones his Division Commander and requests permission to attack the enemy paratroopers that are reported to have landed and established a bridgehead over the Orne River in his defense sector. The Division Commander denies permission, citing orders from higher command to avoid major contact until cleared by higher command.

This new "method" of "command" is antithetical to the traditional German method of "auftragstaktik", or "mission-oriented" command in which the lower commander is given the mission, but not told HOW to complete the mission. Von Luck is ordered to "Defend your Sector", but, then must get permission from higher command before actually taking action to defend his sector.

This perversion of the traditional method of how the German Army fought is because Adolf Hitler himself changed things to suit his desire to control as much of the battlefield as possible.

Just posted, here is the entire 82-minute version of CBS’s 1964 program "D-Day Plus 20 Years - Eisenhower Returns to Normandy” with Walter Cronkite:

youtube - CBS Reports (1964): "D-Day Plus 20 Years - Eisenhower Returns to Normandy"


The Allied invasion of Nazi-controlled France on June 6, 1944 was the largest military invasion in history, involving nearly 160,000 service members arriving by ship and air at Normandy. Its success turned the tide of World War II.

This special broadcast of "CBS Reports," featuring newsreel footage of the invasion, originally aired in 19 countries around the world on June 5, 1964.

I really want to go Normandy one day and walk on Omaha Beach. Just want to reflect and think of what those brave heroes saw that day.