miamijimf Posted June 6, 2014 Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 It's hard to believe that it's been 70 years since D Day. Great courage and sacrifice on both sides. Check out this guy- he really is "AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY!" http://news.yahoo.com/world-war-ii-vet--93--plans-to-parachute-onto-beaches-of-normandy-133638834.html 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt5 Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 It's hard to believe that it's been 70 years since D Day. Great courage and sacrifice on both sides. Check out this guy- he really is "AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY!" http://news.yahoo.com/world-war-ii-vet--93--plans-to-parachute-onto-beaches-of-normandy-133638834.html A lovely post Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamijimf Posted June 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Thanks Matt. He can almost fit into his 1944 Eisenhower jacket, that's quite an accomplishment as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt5 Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Thanks Matt. He can almost fit into his 1944 Eisenhower jacket, that's quite an accomplishment as well. Very true - a great picture . Thanks Matt. He can almost fit into his 1944 Eisenhower jacket, that's quite an accomplishment as well. Very true - a great picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yann529 Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 The most beautiful pictures of the D-Day ceremonies in France (Normandy) http://www.lefigaro.fr/photos/2014/06/06/01013-20140606ARTFIG00397-les-plus-belles-images-des-ceremonies-du-d-day.php France will never forget the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for our freedom. ;( God bless all 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt5 Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 The most beautiful pictures of the D-Day ceremonies in France (Normandy) http://www.lefigaro.fr/photos/2014/06/06/01013-20140606ARTFIG00397-les-plus-belles-images-des-ceremonies-du-d-day.php France will never forget the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for our freedom. ;( God bless all Great coverage 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAir Posted June 10, 2014 Report Share Posted June 10, 2014 Allegedly this was the first soldier captured in Normandy.The story is he is a Korean who was put into the Japanese army,captured by the Soviets,fought with the Soviets,captured by the Germans,and fought in the Wehrmacht. In South Korea they based a movie on that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeEQD1mv0n0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 Wow, South Korea definately knows how to make great movies... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt5 Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 Allegedly this was the first soldier captured in Normandy.The story is he is a Korean who was put into the Japanese army,captured by the Soviets,fought with the Soviets,captured by the Germans,and fought in the Wehrmacht. In South Korea they based a movie on that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeEQD1mv0n0 Look fantastic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamijimf Posted June 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 Look fantastic Amazing story about the Korean. As they say truth is stranger than fiction and IMO more Interesting than the product of someones imagination. Excellent and very well done CGI work about D Day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamijimf Posted June 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 Here’s a link to some great photos from the D-Day landing June 6, 1944, along with photos of the same scenes 70 years later. I know C Glide, especially, will appreciate the effort this took to find the exact same locations. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/d-day-landing-sites-then-now-normandy-beaches-1944-70-years-later-1450286 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAir Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 Here’s a link to some great photos from the D-Day landing June 6, 1944, along with photos of the same scenes 70 years later. I know C Glide, especially, will appreciate the effort this took to find the exact same locations. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/d-day-landing-sites-then-now-normandy-beaches-1944-70-years-later-1450286Woah,scary stuff!Who to thought that these places that are so comfy looking and to go on holiday was a place of death and havoc!Its nice to see that most of the locations look the same as it did 70 years ago.To all that fought and died in that battle,no matter what side they they were on,R.I.P. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamijimf Posted June 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 You know it's a good thing those sunbathers were not there in 1944 when the GI's landed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt5 Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 You know it's a good thing those sunbathers were not there in 1944 when the GI's landed. Very true Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Daytona74 Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 (edited) Coincidentally, I was born almost exactly to the hour 30 years after D-day. Being German, it fills you with great sadness at times that your own ancestors permitted such a totalitarian political system to exist in your country, with a certified lunatic at its helm, with no regard for human dignity, with an utterly racist ideology, and in the end responsible for the deaths of 45 million people. But my own family, like so many others, paid the price, in that my one granddad died in a trench somewhere on the Western front not long after D-day as the allied troops were advancing. A young man in his 20s, with a wife and three little kids back home. And deep down, that made him just as human as anybody. Given an actual choice, he very probably never would have given his life for that of the Führer. Edited June 7, 2018 by Daytona74 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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