6th June 1944.

[Tim.243]

Good coverage on the D-Day landings this morning at Ver-sur-Mur with 11 veterans aged 100 making the trip....!

A tear for their fallen brothers: British D-Day veterans are given a heroes' welcome as they return to Normandy for 79th anniversary of the WW2 invasion​

• A total of 11 British veterans gathered in Ver-sur-Mer in Normandy on Monday

British D-Day veterans have received an emotional welcome today as they returned to France to mark the 79th anniversary of the Normandy landings.

War heroes from the UK's armed forces travelled across the Channel for a gathering at the British Normandy Memorial in the town of Ver-sur-Mer, where two days of commemorative events are taking place.

A total of 11 British veterans were greeted by French schoolchildren at the site overlooking the beaches where 22,442 servicemen and women under UK command were killed on D-Day and in the Battle of Normandy.

 

[bluesako]

all heroes god bless them, my dads birthday today he was in burma bs

 

[Tim.243]

A contribution from Essex kindly laid on by Mr P & Mrs F Theobold

A 103 year old Sapper with a recreation of the landing in Normandy 79 years ago today he was there.

 

[Tim.243]

A contribution from Essex kindly laid on by Mr P & Mrs F Theobold

A 103 year old Sapper with a recreation of the landing in Normandy 79 years ago today he was there.
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@paul o'

 

[Mossypaw]

D-Day veteran recalls Churchill's explicit words to him before Normandy landings

Jack Quinn led a team of frogmen setting explosives during the D-Day landings - and always sheds a tear when he returns to Normandy.

news.sky.com

 

[paul o']

LESS WE FORGET its a saying we use in the UK !
but looking at the amount of reply's to this very important post of remembrance that so many fine young men and woman gave it all up to give us the rights to have what we have in 2023.
Yes there is so much thats wrong with what has become the woke and all that B.S that has evolved from that point in world history but we should never forget how we were given this right and by whom.
I shall always be thankful to them all what ever creed there may have been
this is post # 6
you would think it should have more content from the SD ? but sadly NO ! we are more embroiled by the use of the word HEADS !

Those Ever so brave men women that came to our aid to fight would say if they could why the feck did we bother !

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[enfieldspares]

My friend's father flew a glider into Normandy at the Orne Bridges with the Glider Pilot Regiment. He said that it was "easy" as "they weren't expecting us". He was taken back across the Channel that morning and flew a second glider out the same afternoon. He also flew a glider into Arnhem and this time "it was very different they knew we were coming....". He was in fact then captured at Arnhem having been wounded in the arm. The soldiers that captured him were SS troops. He and his comrades feared they'd be shot. In fact, as he recounted, they treated us very well, exactly by the rules of war and, as he said "it was an SS doctor that saved my arm" from otherwise having to be amputated.

 

[Rookandrabbit]

My father landed on Juno beach he was assigned with Canadian forces, although he was British. He was in the Royal Signals and his unit was Air formation. His main job was to set up communications for the makeshift airstrips that the engineers had built in the fields behind Bernières-sur-Mer. The communications were between land forces and the aircraft.
He fought his way across France, going through Caen several times. He did say things were not all plain sailing as the Germans had been billeted with French and Belgian Families and formed relationships with some of them and “liberators” were breaking up families.

He was blown up on the outskirts of Nijmegen where he was in the PBI of Operation Market Garden fighting to get to Arnhem.

My uncle, mums brother was at Arnhem where he was wounded and taken prisoner. He had survived stints in North Africa, invasion of Sicily ( he was in the gliders also which were cut loose too early and they crashed into the sea) then eventually Holland. He was also wounded shot twice then patched up and forced to work in a salt mine by the Germans.

we owe so much to that generation we must never forget their sacrifices not just the service men and women but also those who served on the home front.