Comments on: Remembered

By: Colonel Jerry USMC

Colonel Jerry USMC — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:52:33 +0000

^^^ Thank God, he didn`t open his fucking eating hole——and embarrass us!^^^

By: danintampa

danintampa — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 04:57:20 +0000

Meanwhile, Dear Leader SCOAMF’s D-day tribute was just….remarkable.

By: ZZMike

ZZMike — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 03:25:14 +0000

mech: “Europe is still basically free but ” … this new-fangled EU thing is working to fix that.

By: mech

mech — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:44:22 +0000

Thanks for posting Reagan’s speech, Doug.

Europe is still basically free but nearly all the drive ins are gone.
google chose poorly.

By: ZZMike

ZZMike — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:39:00 +0000

Hog: Well, heck – just so’s your talents didn’t go to waste.

By: Hog Whitman

Hog Whitman — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 23:08:42 +0000

Thanks for reminding me. I can’t believe I almost forgot. I should be takend-out and beat with sticks. My father was in that battle. He came out with a Silver Star, and two Purple Hearts (one from Bastogne later-on from account of artillery).

Me? At 17 I tried to volunteer for Viet Nam ’cause I wanted to go kill me some gooks! but they (the Army) wouldn’t take me because I was still too ‘rough’. I guess my up-bringing through orphanages and reform school put them off a little. A year later they would have taken me, but by that time I’d changed my mind.

So I became a bank-robber instead.

By: dick, not quite dead white guy

dick, not quite dead white guy — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:36:39 +0000

In TUA’s pic, there is a guy just off the left center of the landing craft ramp, looking over his left shoulder. That’s Bill X, a fellow I used to shoot with. He joked about changing his mind and getting back on the boat.
I would not blame him. Can’t imagine staring at those bluffs all lit up with muzzle flashes across hundreds of yards of flat, open beach and still having the courage to move forward.
Vos Salutamus

By: ZZMike

ZZMike — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:42:00 +0000

Google strikes out again. Their Logo of the Day is "79th Anniversary of the first drive-in theater". mojo: The photographs we see from the landing, by Robert Capa, are the closest thing to being there: The Magnificent Eleven: The D-Day Photographs of Robert Capa Second best to being there is the opening part of "Saving Private Ryan". He was one of the first embedded journalists. He went on the beach with the 1st Infantry Division. He took 106 photos (35mm film camera). Back at base, the guy developing the film dried the film too quickly, too hot - most all of it melted. All but 10. You can find most of them at Capa Photos (mixed in with a lot of his others). All gave some. Some gave all.

By: DougM (jackassophobe)

DougM (jackassophobe) — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:09:05 +0000

^ Thunderbottom,
The French are still sore that the first army the US fought in WWII was the French Army when the US landed in North Africa.

By: Thunderbottom

Thunderbottom — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:00:38 +0000

#3, Col. Jerry: A while back, I read the memoirs of a paratrooper who participated in the D-Day drop and in Operation Market-Garden. He said that, compared to the French, the Dutch were genuinely grateful at what the Allies, particularly the American and British paratroopers, had done to liberate the Netherlands. He wrote that he always enjoyed going back to the Netherlands for unit reunions; the Dutch were gracious and generous hosts. The French, on the other hand, acted like the paratroopers were vagabond trespassers and, for the most part, displayed little to no gratitude (that's not to say that all the French were like that; I've read that, on the whole, the natives of Normandy are much friendlier and warmer to Americans than Parisians and inhabitants in the rest of France.)