June 6th, 1944 Operation Overlord the Allied invasion of Normandy

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Posted by ogvh5150 on Jun-06-2005 22:13:

June 6th, 1944 Operation Overlord the Allied invasion of Normandy

In Memoriam

Posted by St_Andrew on Jun-06-2005 22:37:

June 6, also the swedish national day

(although no one really celebrates it...)

Posted by Trancer-X on Jun-07-2005 02:46:

R.I.P. to all of the brave young men that we lost on that day.

They are true HEROES in my book!

Posted by Jackson on Jun-07-2005 10:15:

RIP Men, you are true Heroes and will be remembered until the end of time!

Posted by ogvh5150 on Jun-07-2005 10:50:

Does anyone know someone that told you stories about that day?

Posted by metalgearsolid on Jun-07-2005 11:46:

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Originally posted by ogvh5150
Does anyone know someone that told you stories about that day?

steven spielburg

Posted by ogvh5150 on Jun-07-2005 21:25:

Not that idiot. I mean real stories.

Posted by Jackson on Jun-07-2005 22:45:

Do you mean do we know people who took part in the invasion?
Or are you asking to hear individuals stories of what happened on the day?

My grandad who died before i was born was in the Desert Rats - 8th Amoured infantry. I think they took part in the invasion, but i know he also fought in Italy which was around the same period (Rome was liberated 2 days before d-day)

Posted by metalgearsolid on Jun-07-2005 22:54:

i have a friend whos grandfather was in the red army. He was only 15 when he entered the war. when the war ended his whole family was dead. His grandpa had a bad life early on.

But then again you werent asking for the eastern front

Posted by ogvh5150 on Jun-07-2005 23:17:

You mean Operation Barbarossa? I was thinking about doing a thread post on it's anniversary. Hopefully there will be some replies on that come the 22nd.

Posted by occrider on Jun-08-2005 06:02:

Not real stories, but I'm an advid fan of WW2 history. I watch the history channel frequentely and read plenty of Keegan, Ambrose, etc., so I've read my fair share of first hand accounts. If you want to see something a bit more commerical (but still very excellent), you can watch the HBO band of brothers series. Every episode is preceded by a first hand account from the soldiers who were actually there that the series attempts to portray.

Posted by occrider on Jun-08-2005 06:06:

quote:
Originally posted by metalgearsolid
i have a friend whos grandfather was in the red army. He was only 15 when he entered the war. when the war ended his whole family was dead. His grandpa had a bad life early on.

But then again you werent asking for the eastern front

Do you know what battlefront he was a part of (Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, etc.)?

Posted by metalgearsolid on Jun-08-2005 12:14:

quote:
Originally posted by occrider
Do you know what battlefront he was a part of (Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, etc.)?

i know his first combat was in stalingrad and he did fight in kursk. What a lucky man he fought in like the major battles of the 20th century. But if you asked him he isn't lucky according to him.

Posted by Jackson on Jun-08-2005 16:27:

Stalingrad? wow! If "Enemy at the gates" was at all accurate, that place looked like hell on earth.

Posted by occrider on Jun-08-2005 16:40:

quote:
Originally posted by metalgearsolid
i know his first combat was in stalingrad and he did fight in kursk. What a lucky man he fought in like the major battles of the 20th century. But if you asked him he isn't lucky according to him.

He's lucky that he fought in one of the most bloody battles of the 20th century and survived! Also it's somewhat cool, in retrospect of course, that he fought in the biggest tank battle ever. Stalingrad sounds rough. It could have been rougher though ... he could have been a German who faught in Stalingrad .

Posted by metalgearsolid on Jun-08-2005 20:16:

quote:
Originally posted by occrider
He's lucky that he fought in one of the most bloody battles of the 20th century and survived! Also it's somewhat cool, in retrospect of course, that he fought in the biggest tank battle ever. Stalingrad sounds rough. It could have been rougher though ... he could have been a German who faught in Stalingrad .

yeah right. I asked him how it was for him he was like I HAD NO FUCKING GUN FOR THE FIRST WEEK! I was just running hoping i wouldn't nbe shot from a sniper or something. He also told me he ate rats cuz they had no food. He said they werent ready for the germans

Posted by St_Andrew on Jun-08-2005 20:24:

quote:
Originally posted by metalgearsolid
yeah right. I asked him how it was for him he was like I HAD NO FUCKING GUN FOR THE FIRST WEEK! I was just running hoping i wouldn't nbe shot from a sniper or something. He also told me he ate rats cuz they had no food. He said they werent ready for the germans

shit, stuff like that is really hard to understand can really happen... and the russians get way too litle credit for what they did in WWII imo...

Posted by Jackson on Jun-08-2005 20:45:

quote:
Originally posted by St_Andrew
shit, stuff like that is really hard to understand can really happen... and the russians get way too litle credit for what they did in WWII imo...

+1
I dont think the brits get much credit for some of the breakthroughs we had. But yes, the russians were in a worse spot.
Theres so many attrocities from ww" that dont get much publicity, like the Rape of Nanking...reading that stuff made me vomit, literally