June 6, 1944 D-Day!

[BoomerD]

66 years ago, Allied troops landed at Normandy to retake Europe from the Nazis.

Sad that there are so few of these brave men left.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...&safe=off&sa=X&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS336&tbs=isch:1

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Good day to watch Saving Private Ryan.

Weather forecast for t-storms and hail here.

 

[Terzo]

Thumbs up for pictures. It's always interesting to browse through them and get a glimpse of what it was like back then.

 

[Schadenfroh]

My heart and thanks go out to the brave men who landed on those foreign beaches all those years ago in the service of our country.

 

[caddlad]

Thank you to the Greatest generation.

 

[slightlyhuman]

enjoyed the pictures. many thanks for the brave people who dedicated their life to that.

 

[dud]

Can you imagine if this event had happened in the age of modern media. We would all be glued to our TVs/monitors watching the drama unfold.

 

[Kreon]

This has to be the scariest moment any of these men ever faced.

I have no idea how they weren't all shitting themselves, bawling, and barfing. I know I would have been.
But I guess that's why they're the greatest generation and we're all not.

I wonder how many of the men in this landing craft survived D-Day and the war?

 

[Kadarin]

Can you imagine if this event had happened in the age of modern media. We would all be glued to our TVs/monitors watching the drama unfold.

And the goddamned dumbfuck hippies would be protesting every moment of it while blaming Obama and Israel.

 

[TheWart]

Can you imagine if this event had happened in the age of modern media. We would all be glued to our TVs/monitors watching the drama unfold.

Most of AT would probably be too busy fighting in the war to be watching it on TV, given the draft and all.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

If the same scenario happened today would this generation pulled together the same way they did? It took the whole country sacrificing just so they'd have enough to fuel the war effort.

If you guys really like ww2 stuff check out The War by Ken Burns. It's a 6 disc documentary on the war. Hours and hours of footage, stories from all sides of the war, interviews with vets, their wives and kids, etc.. It's really great and well worth the watch.

 

[Imp]

Most of AT would probably be too busy fighting in the war to be watching it on TV, given the draft and all.

I probably won't. I'm "blind" according to current medical standards at -7.00 -ish in both eyes. Depending on how blind the rest of you nerds are... rear echelon, ya!

 

[TheWart]

If the same scenario happened today would this generation pulled together the same way they did? It took the whole country sacrificing just so they'd have enough to fuel the war effort.

If you guys really like ww2 stuff check out The War by Ken Burns. It's a 6 disc documentary on the war. Hours and hours of footage, stories from all sides of the war, interviews with vets, their wives and kids, etc.. It's really great and well worth the watch.

I think some people are too quick to dismiss something like that from being possible in 'today's generation.' I like to think that for all the absurdities and ridiculousness that goes on, this country would pull together if it really had to. I think you get glimpses of this following natural disasters, terrorist attacks, etc. I think people would step up if our national survival was on the line like it was in WWII.

 

[bommy261]

Having been deployed to Iraq, you realize even more the sacrifices the previous generation made for the freedoms we have today. I cannot believe the size of the balls of those men, they are truly our greatest generation.

 

[foghorn67]

If the same scenario happened today would this generation pulled together the same way they did? It took the whole country sacrificing just so they'd have enough to fuel the war effort.

If you guys really like ww2 stuff check out The War by Ken Burns. It's a 6 disc documentary on the war. Hours and hours of footage, stories from all sides of the war, interviews with vets, their wives and kids, etc.. It's really great and well worth the watch.

Yep. Even households without someone overseas sacrificed in some way, big or small. Fuel, food, and other things were rationed. Sometimes strictly. Cars and many other consumer products ceased development and production.
Factories were converted for military use, without much fuss. (Or enthusiastically).
Folks volunteered for coastal and boarder watches, fire depts, search and rescue sqauds, etc.
Also, people donated scrap metal and rubber for the war effort.

 

[Sealy]

This year Canada lost our oldest WWI veteran, John Babcock at the age of 109. RIP and thank you.

http://blog.taragana.com/law/2010/0...world-war-i-dies-at-age-109-in-spokane-20316/

 

[bobsmith1492]

This has to be the scariest moment any of these men ever faced.

I have no idea how they weren't all shitting themselves, bawling, and barfing. I know I would have been.
But I guess that's why they're the greatest generation and we're all not.

I wonder how many of the men in this landing craft survived D-Day and the war?

Oh they were barfing. From what I've read even the hardiest seagoing folk were puking the whole way despite anti-nausea pills.