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Today in history. D-Day landing on the beach at Normandy
Jun 6, 2018 20:38:23   #
hasslichhog
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings

The beginning of the end of WWII.

As an American soldier who served stateside in the few months preceding the surrender of Germany and, later, Japan, in WWII; then in Germany, from April '46 to Oct. '48 during "The Occupation of Germany," I extend my heartfelt thanks to those thousands of Allied soldiers and sailors who preceded me during the D-Day landings. For those thousands who perished, R.I.P brave, selfless solders and sailors.

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Jun 6, 2018 21:28:47   #
linsee69
 
Thanks for your service. Lin USN ret

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Jun 7, 2018 06:53:12   #
JoAnneK01 Loc: Lahaina, Hawaii
 
God bless your for your service.

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Jun 7, 2018 07:49:07   #
MTG44 Loc: Corryton, Tennessee
 
Thank you !

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Jun 7, 2018 08:14:37   #
Lemon Drop Kid Loc: Greeley, CO
 
Where were you in Germany? I was stationed in Wieden from Oct. 1945 to sometime in early 1946 as the last guys who had seen service during the war were being sent home. Some still had as high as 85 points. Then the spit and polish Constabulary came in.
hasslichhog wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings



As an American soldier who served stateside in the few months preceding the surrender of Germany and, later, Japan, in WWII; then in Germany, from April '46 to Oct. '48 during "The Occupation of Germany," I extend my heartfelt thanks to those thousands of Allied soldiers and sailors who preceded me during the D-Day landings. For those thousands who perished, R.I.P brave, selfless solders and sailors.

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Jun 7, 2018 08:28:24   #
GeneB Loc: Chattanooga Tennessee
 
We will not forget you.

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Jun 7, 2018 08:46:13   #
rwoodvira
 
I said a a prayer for my uncle Skeeter (real name Enos) who was in the landings at D-Day. He fought across Europe until the end of the war. He has been gone for quite a few years. He did not say much about his combat experience except that his fellow troops loved & hated Patton, but Patton took care of the people that fought. He came home with his rifle which he hung on the wall and said it would stay there unless someone tried to invade Wildwood, NJ where he lived.

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Jun 7, 2018 11:18:47   #
dragonswing Loc: Pa
 
Both my father and my uncle were paratroopers with the Airborne units there. My father survived, my uncle did not and is now buried in Luxembourg. My father broke the same ankle twice during jumps and it plagued him all his life---ended up being amputated.

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Jun 7, 2018 22:16:54   #
hasslichhog
 
Lemon Drop Kid

"Where were you in Germany?"

Sorry for the delay in answering.

My first place was Weinheim, near both Heidelberg and Mannheim. It was a group of General Patton's 3rd Army, the 15th Cavalry, later becoming the Constabulary. Then, transferred to Seckenheim; later to Boblingen; then to Fuessen, at the foot of the Bavarian Alps; and, finally, Vaihingen, near Stuttgart, Germany, where I worked on The Stars & Stripes Army newspaper.

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Jun 11, 2018 16:39:36   #
DickC Loc: NE Washington state
 
Thank you for your service!!

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