Takes some time to download. Better you have a hi-speed connection. It never ceases to amaze me what these young men did...

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Thank you for the post.

Thank you, I enjoyed the pics.

Excellent post and great photos.

I will add that while D-Day was happening there were 70,000 US troop 1 Army Division and 2 Marine Divisions in convoy to the Marianias Islands in the central Pacific. There on June 15, just 9 days after D-Day the mad another amphibious landing on Saipan against 25,000 Japanses Army and Naval troops. Few of the Japanese surrendered.
After Saipan the Marine took Tinian. During the land battle for Saipan the Japanese fleet attacked the invasion fleet resulting in the loss of 300 plus naval aircraft. This was called the Great Marianas Turkey shoot.
Thus the US took significant offensives successful against Germany and Japan at the same time.

Thanks those were great photos.

Wonderful pictures. These men did incredible things to stop tyranny.

When I delivered mail for the post office A old guy that lived on my route was in Cost Guard and ran a landing craft on D-day. He said his boat was part of 12 that were pulled across the chanel by a British destroyer. After the ship let the landing craft loose it ran parallel to beach behind the landers fireing every thing it had. He said that every peson on the ship that didn't have a gun position was on the deck shooting 303's at the beach. Even the cooks were out there in white cooking uniforms. The first time they went down the beach they were so close to the beach that the 5"(4.7"?) shells were not exploding.

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When I delivered mail for the post office A old guy that lived on my route was in Cost Guard and ran a landing craft on D-day. He said his boat was part of 12 that were pulled across the channel by a British destroyer. After the ship let the landing craft loose it ran parallel to beach behind the landers firing every thing it had. He said that every person on the ship that didn't have a gun position was on the deck shooting 303's at the beach. Even the cooks were out there in white cooking uniforms. The first time they went down the beach they were so close to the beach that the 5"(4.7"?) shells were not exploding.

I have read accounts of what happened on the beaches on that day. The accounts relate that the bullets coming from the German machinegun installations were of such volume that the sea looked like a heavy rain was falling on it. Can you imagine being a young man never before in combat; knowing that the LC was going to get you close to the beach but not to dry land; that when the gate dropped, you'd have to swim a bit in that hail of bullets; that those bullets would be directed right into the LC were you stood? The very idea frightens me. Yet, those young men did it. Such courage can never be forgotten or taken for granted...

Nice pix, I was intrigued by D day for years. Here is errata for you. The second picture from the top, where the comments read:

Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower gives the order of the day “Full victory – Nothing else” to paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division at the Royal Air Force base in Greenham Common, England, three hours before the men board their planes to participate in the first assault wave of the invasion of the continent of Europe, June 5, 1944. (AP Photo)

I remember reading somewhere, that they are actually talking trout fishing, because one of the boys asked Eisenhower about a trip to a lake or something like that. I am willing to believe it, why would the supreme commander be giving orders to the troops, it goes by the chain of the command.

Excellent and powerful images.

Thanks for posting.