D-Day plus 75

[pineapplemike]

shapiro did a show on d-day interviewing some of the veterans that fought in normandy, including that 97 year old that parachuted out of the plane this week. i will say this about those old timers, they remember the details man, they'll tell you exactly how many planes were on the runway, exactly which corner of the door his arm got stuck in. fascinating stuff. i dont have the link but you can find it

[C-Mag]

Some incredible colorized D-day photos over here.

https://marinamaral.com/2019/06/d-day-in-color/

Good Stuff

[DrYouth]

Great thread!

Thanks.

[Speaker to Animals]

Looking for colorized pics of Team Canada on Juno Beach.

[C-Mag]

Famous faces of D-Day

[C-Mag]

The first men ashore at Omaha Beach were citizen soldiers of the Virginia National Guard. 29th Infantry Division, the Blue and Grey Division.

Four rifle companies landing on a hostile shore at H-hour, D-Day -- 6:30 a.m., on June 6, 1944. The long-awaited liberation of France was underway. After long months in England, National Guardsmen from Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia found themselves in the vanguard of the Allied attack.

In those early hours on the fire-swept beach the 116th Infantry Combat Team, the old Stonewall Brigade of Virginia, clawed its way through Les Moulins draw toward its objective, Vierville-sur-Mer.

It was during the movement from Les Moulins that the battered but gallant 2d Battalion broke loose from the beach, clambered over the embankment, and a small party, led by the battalion commander, fought its way to a farmhouse which became its first Command post in France. The 116th suffered more than 800 casualties this day -- a day which will long be remembered as the beginning of the Allies' "Great Crusade" to rekindle the lamp of liberty and freedom on the continent of Europe.

[C-Mag]

[heydaralon]

D-Day was important and all, but an often overlooked aspect of our history is black inventors, like George Washington Carver.





Dude invented peanut brittle and did so despite living during a racist time.