D-Day 65th Anniversary

[Notebook]

I don't know this will go down, but I don't think this should be forgotten:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8086672.stm

This is for all.

N.

 

[Unstung]

I did not even notice today was the anniversary of D-Day until this.

 

[MeDiCS]

I just don't like how most of the world think that the allies were only American, British and Russian. Canada, for example, participated the D-Day strike, but I rarely see this mentioned.

 

[Notebook]

The term "Allies" during WWII is usually took to mean the three major powers at that time, US, GB, Russia. If you look at these conferences that took part during WWII:-

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/ww2timeline/confer.html

Its toward the end of WWII that other nations appear.

Thats the grand strategy, of course many countries fought against the Axis forces during WWII.
During D-Day, there were Canadian, Free French, Poles,Czechoslovakian, Norwegian, Danish, and more I don't doubt.

N.

 

[Chipstone306]

My Father just got back from Normandy a few days ago to spread my grandfathers ashes on the beach. It still brings back hard memories according to my father for all that go there. Thanks god we may never have to make sacrifices like that anymore.
thanks for posting this

 

[Notebook]

Apologies for bringing up an old thread. A friend just came back from a visit to the Normandy beaches, and I thought these may be interesting.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/n003.jpg
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N.

 

[V8Li]

Thanks for sharing the pics with us Notebook. I like this one the most: http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/n034.jpg . I'd like to go to Normandy as soon as possible, I feel we are loosing it somehow, the terrain is changing and is with every year less and less important.

 

[Notebook]

You are welcome, I'm ashamed to say, I've never been, and its closer than ever with the Channel Tunnel. It still took my friend and his wife a good day to reach it from their first overnight, you forget how big France is compared to UK.

It was very busy at the museums and the memorial sites, I don't think it will be forgotten, it was too large an event in the 20th Century. It will change in public memory,of course, as the people involved pass on.

N.

 

[V8Li]

I don't know, I mean it's the place where I want to go, all my friends talk about Antalia, Hawaii and stuff like that and they look at me like I'm some idiot who thinks too much, that's why I'm saying people don't appreciate it. I hope I'll take a good vacation next year, hopefully buy the car that I want ( BMW Z4 ) find and nice girl and just take a week on the road and spend one or 2 days there. It's an unbelivible place where some great peolpe lost their lives and I can only imagine what's like to be taken away and sent to hopefully not die. And there's nothing you can do about it too. I'm talking about the soldier, being him a german, british, american or whatever.

 

[Notebook]

That's quite a trip V8Li, my friends wife is orinally from Chezoslavakia, as was, and they used to drive to her old town near Pilsen. They did have some adventures, various borders, various bribes...various lagers!

N.