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June 6, 1944

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DubCoffman62 said:
Imagine the horror knowing you were facing that as you headed to the beach in the landing craft
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My grandfather was in North Africa briefly and then Sicily and Italy as part of the 3rd Division. After that, he was in Southern France, Belgium and then ultimately Germany from 1942-1945. Never wounded or even scratched once. He started the war as a private and ended it as a First Sergeant.
 
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ExpatAkronite said:
Worth noting (and rarely talked about) is that French civilians also paid a hell of a price during the Normany invasion--over 60,000 killed (many in the pre-invasion bombing).
https://www.stripes.com/news/specia...rgely-ignored-side-of-d-day-campaign-1.583557
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Missed this (5 years ago).

Yeah so, my Grandfather flew as an Engineer with the 544th Squadron, 384th Heavy Bomb Group out of Grafton Underwood. He talked about this to me quite a bit. It was his least favorite part of the war (and he did plenty of urban German bombing) because it was small targets and crossroads in towns in France.

Anyway you can see the target list change in may and June of 1944 (this is a very high level list)


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June 6th 1944 was 6 days before his 22nd Birthday.
 
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Mike80 said:
My grandfather was in North Africa briefly and then Sicily and Italy as part of the 3rd Division. After that, he was in Southern France, Belgium and then ultimately Germany from 1942-1945. Never wounded or even scratched once. He started the war as a private and ended it as a First Sergeant.
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My father was Seabee in Vietnam. He came back in one piece physically but not mentally. They often had to build bases in areas crawling with Viet Cong, many of whom worked as laborers by day

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DubCoffman62 said:
My father was Seabee in Vietnam. He came back in one piece physically but not mentally. They often had to build bases in areas crawling with Viet Cong, many of whom worked as laborers by day

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Dad had two tours in Vietnam - one as a line officer and one as a staff officer. He never talked about it much until recently after mom passed away.

I never got to talk with my grandfather about World War 2. He passed away from a massive stroke when I was 2 years old.
 
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Mike80 said:
Dad had two tours in Vietnam - one as a line officer and one as a staff officer. He never talked about it much until recently after mom passed away.

I never got to talk with my grandfather about World War 2. He passed away from a massive stroke when I was 2 years old.
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The only thing he talked about was the poverty and poor living conditions of people over there and how we don't know just how well we have it. It turned him into this

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In all of my memory I never once saw him cleaned up and dressed well. He always looked like a hippy peasant.
 
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