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re: D-Day was 74 years ago today. I can't think of anything more Alpha as frick than this.Posted by GetCocky11 on 6/6/18 at 8:12 am to Ponchy Tiger
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A friend of my Dad landed on Utah Beach. He told us once that there was a number of guys that claimed God didn’t exist and they didn’t believe in God. He said that as they were approaching the beach that all of them dudes were openly and loudly praying to God.
My grandfather fought in Brittany, France in '45 and those experiences affected him until his dying day.
re: D-Day was 74 years ago today. I can't think of anything more Alpha as frick than this.Posted by OlGrandad on 6/6/18 at 8:13 am to castorinho
Rosco Brannon died two years ago. I visited him in the hospital twenty years ago after he had an operation.
I asked if he was in much pain and he told me he did not know pain until Normandy. He said he asked the Lord to please not let him suffer like the men he was trying to patch up on the beach. I had no idea he was there.
From his obituary:
I would visit with him and call on D Day. RIP
I asked if he was in much pain and he told me he did not know pain until Normandy. He said he asked the Lord to please not let him suffer like the men he was trying to patch up on the beach. I had no idea he was there.
From his obituary:
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A thirty year Navy Veteran, he landed on Normandy on D-Day, and was treating casualties within two hours of the first landings, and also served in the Korean Conflict.
I would visit with him and call on D Day. RIP
re: D-Day was 74 years ago today. I can't think of anything more Alpha as frick than this.Posted by The Cool No 9 on 6/6/18 at 8:17 am to Sentrius
The invasion must have took every minute of the many months it took Churchill & FDR to plot and prepare for it. Britain was taking bombs from the nazis all the while, but we were simply not prepared to rush right in after Pearl Harbor as the war production hadn't ramped up yet. We were still coming out of the depression and didn't have the capital on our hands. Automobile producers had to become tank and plane builders for a couple years first which put many to work back at home and got us out of the depression. What an incredible sacrifice and endeavor of the cause of freedom. Next year to mark 75 years.
This post was edited on 6/6 at 8:19 am
re: D-Day was 74 years ago today. I can't think of anything more Alpha as frick than this.Posted by TexasTiger89 on 6/6/18 at 8:24 am to Sentrius
re: D-Day was 74 years ago today. I can't think of anything more Alpha as frick than this.Posted by cubsfan5150 on 6/6/18 at 8:26 am to Sentrius
Not saying gay shite like "alpha" would be a start.
re: D-Day was 74 years ago today. I can't think of anything more Alpha as frick than this.Posted by ItzMe1972 on 6/6/18 at 8:35 am to cubsfan5150
``lives fought for life . . . and left the vivid air signed with your honor.''
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re: D-Day was 74 years ago today. I can't think of anything more Alpha as frick than this.Posted by Gulf Coast Tiger on 6/6/18 at 8:41 am to Sentrius
A big salute to the ones that died who never got to be fathers and grandfathers and to enjoy the freedoms that they fought hard for
re: D-Day was 74 years ago today. I can't think of anything more Alpha as frick than this.Posted by Nutriaitch on 6/6/18 at 8:44 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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A lot of the guys from the "greatest" ( ) generation voted for FDR's New Deal, As far as I'm concerned they can go frick themselves.
those who stormed the beaches that day earned the right to vote however the frick they want.
My mom's neighbor was there, he's still gardening and tells stories about the war all the time.
Said it was cold as hell and they didn't have any warm cloths, frost bitten feet were common.
I think he's 93, he went to war at 18
Said it was cold as hell and they didn't have any warm cloths, frost bitten feet were common.
I think he's 93, he went to war at 18
re: D-Day was 74 years ago today. I can't think of anything more Alpha as frick than this.Posted by boxcarbarney on 6/6/18 at 8:48 am to GetCocky11
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The beginning of Saving Private Ryan when they're in the boats waiting to land....that is chilling.
"30 seconds! God be with you!"
re: D-Day was 74 years ago today. I can't think of anything more Alpha as frick than this.Posted by Pettifogger on 6/6/18 at 8:56 am to sicboy
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Let's not turn this thread into another commentary about modern kids, please. Remember that generation, that's it.
Agreed. It's also worth noting that for the last couple of decades we still have 18 and 19 year olds voluntarily electing to put it on the line for their country, resulting in countless acts of heroism in that time. Different circumstances, but equally worthy of our admiration and appreciation.
re: D-Day was 74 years ago today. I can't think of anything more Alpha as frick than this.Posted by Ash Williams on 6/6/18 at 8:59 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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A lot of the guys from the "greatest" ( ) generation voted for FDR's New Deal, As far as I'm concerned they can go frick themselves.
The New Deal was enacted in 1933
D Day was June 6 1944
I have a feeling most of the guys doing the real fighting were under 30
They wouldnt have had anything to do with the New Deal
Dumbass
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re: D-Day was 74 years ago today. I can't think of anything more Alpha as frick than this.Posted by TigerFanInSouthland on 6/6/18 at 9:01 am to Sentrius
The Bedford Boys
I’m in the USMC and enjoy making fun of my Army counterparts, but those were men and I will never say anything cross about those men. They’re heroes, all of them from any service.
And we owe them to be better than we are right now.
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The first craft sunk was Boat No 5. Six members of Company A drowned in that vessel, along with the boat crew. Twenty other men were rescued by naval craft. As the six other LCAs continued to approach shore, a shell hit Boat No. 3, killing several men. A dozen men of the assault team were hurled into the water and drowned.
Roy Stevens was in Boat No. 4. As it approached the beach, he remembered: ‘It came down off a wave and hit an obstacle just like that. Punched a hole in it.’ Fortunately there was no explosive on the end of the obstacle, and the boat simply sank, 500 yards from shore. ‘I was about as scared as I ever was,’ Roy recalled. ‘I could swim, but not real well.’ Like others, he wore a life preserver, but loaded down with 60 pounds of equipment, it was a struggle to keep his head above water. Roy would have drowned if another Bedford native, Clyde Powers, had not come to his aid and cut off his pack. The survivors of Boat No. 4 bobbed alone in the water for almost two hours before they were rescued by a passing boat and returned to England.
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Roy was lucky, but his brother Ray had not been so fortunate. When Roy finally reached Omaha Beach three days later, a medic told him that Ray had been shot across the midsection by a machine gun and had died on the beach. Several days later Roy found his brother’s grave. He said he couldn’t write his family with the news: ‘I was hoping all the time that I was wrong, but it didn’t turn out that way.’
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Lieutenant Edward Tidrick, heading to shore in Boat No. 2, saw that it was coming in at the right spot, but the beach was untouched. In briefings, the 29ers had been told that bombs and artillery shells would create craters in the sand for their protection. For Company A, however, there was no cover on the beach. The U.S. Army Air Forces was supposed to bomb the beach, but, fearing they would hit invading Americans, the airmen flew too far inland before dropping their bombloads. The plan had been for the men to wade ashore in three files from each landing craft. But when the ramps were dropped at 6:30 a.m., all hell broke loose as the waiting Germans unleashed fusillades of withering automatic weapons fire. Order turned into confusion, with each man fighting for his own survival.
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Ray Nance in Boat No. 1 remembered: ‘The minute the ramp went down they opened up. We must have been torn up pretty badly. A good many men were killed on the ramp.’ Nance left the landing craft and plunged into the chest-deep water. ‘I think that is what saved me,’ he recalled.
Struggling ahead of Nance was Pfc John Reynolds. Reynolds went down on his knees, then brought his rifle up and fell forward, dead. ‘It was here that the heaviest fire came down on us,’ Nance would write later. ‘A bullet passed through my pack and clothing, cutting the strap on my binocular case. We were caught in very heavy machine gun fire.’ Not long after, Nance was struck in the heel and also the stomach by bullets. All but three men on Nance’s boat were either killed or wounded before even reaching the water’s edge. Later, two of the three survivors were killed; only Cecil Breeden was untouched.
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The objective was to get up to the high-water mark and off the beach, but many did not make it. John Wilkes and John Schenk were cut down by heavy fire at the waterline, and J.D. Clifton only made it as far as the cliffs before he was killed. Lieutenant Tidrick was struck in the throat shortly after landing. Gasping for air, he ordered, ‘Advance the wire cutters.’ Private Lee Nash heard the order, but was badly wounded and unable to comply.
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Nearby, Boat No. 7 drifted toward shore, its coxswain dead beside the wheel. A medical section with 17 men was on board but could not exit; the Germans zeroed in on them as they struggled to get out, and the medics were helpless. Several were killed before they had a chance to help their badly wounded comrades on the beach.
Company commander Captain Taylor Fellers (who was seriously ill with a severe sinus infection and could have remained in England) and Lieutenant Benjamin Kearfott arrived at the beach with 30 infantrymen aboard LCA-1015. When the ramp went down on their boat, the Germans trained devastating machine gun fire on the group. Fellers and the rest of the men on his boat were killed before they got far up the beach.
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Less than 10 minutes after the ramps dropped, Company A was virtually gone. By the end of the first hour, only a handful of survivors remained. Those men crawled across the sand to the seawall and stayed there throughout the day, suffering from shock, exhaustion and wounds. By nightfall, of the 230 men in the company, only 18 men were unhurt. ‘It took me until 11 a.m. to reach the bank,’ Nance recalled. ‘You can’t imagine the sight of all the bodies, lying close together. I knew what happened then.’
I’m in the USMC and enjoy making fun of my Army counterparts, but those were men and I will never say anything cross about those men. They’re heroes, all of them from any service.
And we owe them to be better than we are right now.
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re: D-Day was 74 years ago today. I can't think of anything more Alpha as frick than this.Posted by namvet6566 on 6/6/18 at 9:02 am to Sentrius
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re: D-Day was 74 years ago today. I can't think of anything more Alpha as frick than this.Posted by Lakeboy7 on 6/6/18 at 9:04 am to lsuhunt555
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I can only imagine how terrified those men were right before those boats hit the beach.
if your landing craft was one of the first to roll off the boat you were in a holding pattern until all in that wave were launched and in formation.
Some craft circled for hours in rough seas before hitting the beach, some of those boats had 6 inches of puke at the bottom.
re: D-Day was 74 years ago today. I can't think of anything more Alpha as frick than this.Posted by Darth_Vader on 6/6/18 at 9:07 am to lsuhunt555
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I can only imagine how terrified those men were right before those boats hit the beach.
There was a lot of concern on the allied side the landings would be an unmitigated disaster with casualty rates of like 90%. In fact, the Supreme Allied Commander, Gen. Eisenhower wrote what amounted to an apology letter in case the landings failed.
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Here's what it says: "Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."
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