Rye Miles #13621 Posted June 6 Posted June 6 June 6 1944 🇺🇸 https://www.dday.center/normandy-today/annual-d-day-anniversary-events/
Cypress Sun Posted June 6 Posted June 6 There isn't very many WWII Vets left, let alone D-Day Vets. Thank You to the ones that are still with us. May the ones that have passed rest in eternal peace.
Cypress Sun Posted June 6 Posted June 6 Don't forget, only two years prior to D-Day during June 4th thru 6th, the battle of Midway forever changed the course of the war in the Pacific. Today, the Japanese were running home WITHOUT the four aircraft carriers, planes and men they sent to Midway. If Midway had gone wrong, I doubt that D-Day would have happened as early as it did.
Blackwater 53393 Posted June 6 Posted June 6 Had an uncle who was there! He never talked about it! Had an uncle lost at Okinawa to a Kamikazi attack. My father was in the Pacific building landing strips and in the occupation of Japan. I only ever heard about non military adventures they had!
Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L Posted June 6 Posted June 6 Dad was a cadet at West Point in 1942 - left and joined the Army Air Corp in 1943 and became a pilot - was stationed in Italy with the 15th Air Force in 1944 - a B-24 he was co-pilot on December 29, 1944 was shot down during a mission behind German lines - 1 crew member was KIA and the rest except for Dad were eventually captured and sent to POW camps - Dad evaded capture with the help of Italian Partisans - he was repatriated mid May 1945
Brock Posted June 6 Posted June 6 4 minutes ago, Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L said: Dad was a cadet at West Point in 1942 - left and joined the Army Air Corp in 1943 and became a pilot - was stationed in Italy with the 15th Air Force in 1944 - a B-24 he was co-pilot on December 29, 1944 was shot down during a mission behind German lines - 1 crew member was KIA and the rest except for Dad were eventually captured and sent to POW camps - Dad evaded capture with the help of Italian Partisans - he was repatriated mid May 1945 Just curious, did he ever meet up with the rest of his crew?
Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L Posted June 6 Posted June 6 2 minutes ago, Brock said: Just curious, did he ever meet up with the rest of his crew? Yes he did at some point - after he pasted we found a casset tape interview that was recorded by the son of one of his co-workers many years later. In it he mentions meeting some of them again after they got out of the POW camps. I have lots of artifacts and photos that document his service which went until he retired a Major in 1984. When I was growing up he was active in the US Army National Guard.
Rye Miles #13621 Posted June 6 Author Posted June 6 My uncle was in the second wave and received a Bronze Star for saving some soldier who was under fire and wounded. He apparently dragged him to safety. We never knew about until years later when my aunt died and his name was also on the gravestone with a Bronze Star emblem on it. I asked him about it and he told me the story. I said why did you never tell us, he said “ I didn’t do anything that anyone else wouldn’t have done”.
Brock Posted June 6 Posted June 6 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZP9q63Ei2p/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
watab kid Posted June 8 Posted June 8 that was enlightening , growing up i heard a lot of the pacific because my d=father and his friends served there , didnt know all that much of europe other than morgan taking command of the 20th AF after his memphis bell success
WOLFY Posted June 8 Posted June 8 I don’t know how many here like Rob Schneider, but his Grandfather had a helluva D Day story
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