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June 6 1944

Yes, thank you Michael, my Dad landed on Utah this day. Glad he lived through this. And he LOVED OUR FLAG!
 
My Uncle Don(mother's older brother) was there. Wouldn't talk about it.He later drove a tank,didn't talk about that either.
 
Thanks to all. I sometime wonder if the young people of today would have the courage to do what these men at that time. My dad was in the Phillipines and New Guniea and he never talked about it
 
Somber and happy day for me......we did visit the landing sites a few years ago....very moving.....plus today is my wife's birthday, so it helps me remember
Ben
 
Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland and the United States.
 
My father was rolling through Rome in a deuce and a half GMC when they got word of the big invasion. They were hoping to get leave to see some of Rome but 4 hours was all they got , then back on the road north. His artillery battalion expected to be sent to France as had their sister battalion but they fought on in Italy for another year. The Italian theatre became 2nd page news but continued to hold German troops that would have been transferred to France or Germany.
 
My dad was on a ship shelling Utah beach and inland. I don't know what a steam engineer did, except had something to do with the engines, but his combat station was feeding the belt that served the 6" guns. He said they shelled the coast until the magazines were almost empty. Hours and hours.
 
(quoted from post at 10:18:15 06/06/18) Thanks to all. I sometime wonder if the young people of today would have the courage to do what these men at that time.

I think the young people in the service today risk their lives just like they did back then. Remember a lot of the WWII guys were drafted. Now it is all voluntary.
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That day was won by men here and there, some lieutenants, some colonels, some privates, who convinced others with them that they would all die if they stayed on the beach. Here and there completely separate groups made their way up gullies ravines, draws and stream beds past the pill boxes. I visited there in Nov. 2001.
 
I don't wonder about the courage of today's young people. I've worked many days/weeks next to a bunch of 'em. They are no less courageous then anybody else. I had three Uncles who were in WW2. They were not much for talk either....
 
(quoted from post at 10:18:15 06/06/18) Thanks to all. I sometime wonder if the young people of today would have the courage to do what these men at that time. My dad was in the Phillipines and New Guniea and he never talked about it
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I don't remember where, but I read an article once by a man who said one of the reasons those young men and the ones in the Pacific were able to do what they did was because they were toughened by spending their formative years living through the depression.
 
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