Darkon84 Posted 6 June 2011 Posted 6 June 2011 67 years today since the D-Day landings. Hats off to our heros of yester year and also all our current guys/girls out there, doing their bit for our country! Let us never forget the sacrifices made by all these brave people, civilian as well as military, for whom we must thank for our freedom today You'll never be forgotten X
MikeyT Posted 6 June 2011 Posted 6 June 2011 I'm glad someone posted this. I posted a similar thing on my Twitter earlier. Definitely never forgotten.
Darkon84 Posted 6 June 2011 Author Posted 6 June 2011 I'm glad someone posted this. I posted a similar thing on my Twitter earlier. Definitely never forgotten. Cant beleive no-one had already started a thread. Thats pretty bad really
ajthefox Posted 6 June 2011 Posted 6 June 2011 Can't believe I didn't even know. I expected my homepage would at least have some kind of tagline but just checked and didn't see anything! They'll always be remembered.
Guest Bilo Posted 6 June 2011 Posted 6 June 2011 Thank you to all who fought for our freedom. They were the real heroes, we mustn't forget them even as they slowly slip away.
Haydos Posted 6 June 2011 Posted 6 June 2011 Huge respect for a huge effort and sacrifice. Can't even begin to imagine what an achievement it was let alone the amount of lives on the line.
MikeyT Posted 6 June 2011 Posted 6 June 2011 http://www.history.com/topics/d-day/?cmpid=Social_Facebook_Topics_06062011_3
Simmo86 Posted 6 June 2011 Posted 6 June 2011 Anybody see the D-Day to Berlin documentary on BBC 2 last night? Seeing what those guys had to go through, massive respect to all.
MikeyT Posted 7 June 2011 Posted 7 June 2011 Anybody see the D-Day to Berlin documentary on BBC 2 last night? Seeing what those guys had to go through, massive respect to all. Missed that, but cheers for mentioning it. Will check it on iplayer.
Christoph Posted 7 June 2011 Posted 7 June 2011 Anybody see the D-Day to Berlin documentary on BBC 2 last night? Seeing what those guys had to go through, massive respect to all. I watched it as well. A proper eye opener on the stupidity of Americans in regards to Eisenhower to Montgomery.
MC Prussian Posted 7 June 2011 Posted 7 June 2011 Check out Tony Vaccaro's book on WWII, "Entering Germany" - he followed the troops from the French Coast all the way to Germany. Some stunning and shocking photographs in there. Highly recommended.
MikeyT Posted 7 June 2011 Posted 7 June 2011 Check out Tony Vaccaro's book on WWII, "Entering Germany" - he followed the troops from the French Coast all the way to Germany. Some stunning and shocking photographs in there. Highly recommended. Cheers for that!
broughtonblue Posted 7 June 2011 Posted 7 June 2011 Respect to them all. My grandad was involved in this and still finds it difficult to talk about the horrors he witnessed. Mentioned to a work mate yesterday about it being the D-Day anniversary, he didn't have a clue what I was on about, he is 36 years old. Shocking
MikeyT Posted 7 June 2011 Posted 7 June 2011 Respect to them all. My grandad was involved in this and still finds it difficult to talk about the horrors he witnessed. Mentioned to a work mate yesterday about it being the D-Day anniversary, he didn't have a clue what I was on about, he is 36 years old. Shocking Dear God!
Darkon84 Posted 7 June 2011 Author Posted 7 June 2011 Respect to them all. My grandad was involved in this and still finds it difficult to talk about the horrors he witnessed. Mentioned to a work mate yesterday about it being the D-Day anniversary, he didn't have a clue what I was on about, he is 36 years old. Shocking
acooling08 Posted 7 June 2011 Posted 7 June 2011 Did anyone see the documentary on Channel 5? It was very well made, and involved a few surviving men from the Allied and Axis side meeting on the site that they shot at each other 67 years ago. If Channel 5 has a iPlayer thing then I'd suggest watching it
broughtonblue Posted 7 June 2011 Posted 7 June 2011 Did anyone see the documentary on Channel 5? It was very well made, and involved a few surviving men from the Allied and Axis side meeting on the site that they shot at each other 67 years ago. If Channel 5 has a iPlayer thing then I'd suggest watching it Sky +'d it, looking forward to watching it when I get a bit of free time
Smudge Posted 7 June 2011 Posted 7 June 2011 I watched it as well. A proper eye opener on the stupidity of Americans in regards to Eisenhower to Montgomery. What was said?
MC Prussian Posted 7 June 2011 Posted 7 June 2011 Did they also mention what a patsy Chamberlain was towards the Nazis in the Treaty of Locarno?
acooling08 Posted 8 June 2011 Posted 8 June 2011 They mentioned how essentially the extremely heavy US losses at Omaha beach were their own fault, as they tragically released their amphibious tanks too far from shore and they all sank. Essentially this left the infrantry to the mercy of the machine guns with no cover, and no way of getting past the barbed wire,
Fosse Boy Posted 8 June 2011 Posted 8 June 2011 Respect to them all. My grandad was involved in this and still finds it difficult to talk about the horrors he witnessed. Mentioned to a work mate yesterday about it being the D-Day anniversary, he didn't have a clue what I was on about, he is 36 years old. Shocking That is probably the saddest thing of it all, the quite understanable fact that people like your Grandad will never be able to come to terms with what they witnessed to talk about it properly. I can't even begin to imagine the horrors that ordinary guys in their late teens and early twenties had to go through on that day.
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