D Day

[den]

Thank you.

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[goodluckfox.livejournal.com]

My grandfather landed a week or two after D-Day. He was a combat engineer, and fought through the Ardennes, Belgium, The Bulge...

He never talked much about it, other than saying it was cold. He died at the age of 70-something when I was in highschool, before I really got to even know him.

I thought Dad would live to be that old. :(

Loxley

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

My grandfather was a market gardener, and so was deemed ineligable to go because he was part of Vital Services. My mum's uncles fought in New Guinea. They never spoke about it.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

Heh, just after I saw this post The Longest Day came up on the History Channel downstairs. Nice timing. %)

My grandfather wasn't there; he was going up Italy at the time and then served in the Netherlands to the end of the war.

WWII's still Beyond My Comprehension for the most part.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I have The Longest Day on DVD. Time to dig it out for my annual viewing.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen it before; caught half tonight because it's so late, and I'll almost certainly find a chance to catch the rest tomorrow.

That thing's ahead of its time in a number of ways. Just the camera work blows my mind.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The scene where the Free French take the town is one LOOOOOOOOONG single take. It's amazing.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

Yeah, shots like that. The long one that started with them pouring out of the alleys and ended after they'd crossed that bridge? I was watching that and thinking, "if they screw that take up, someone's going to get shot with live ammo and deserve it..."

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Agreed - Thanks Joe!

Mako

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

And Tommy. There weren't many Diggers there. They were busy in Africa and New Guinea.

Time to dig out my DVD of The Longest Day.

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the Canadians. The US was the largest single contingent, but the UK and Canada combined were actually slightly more than the US forces.

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[tatterdemalion.livejournal.com]

my grandfather on my mums side was in Africa and then in PNG, he was in the airforce, and then somehow he ended up in the advance force with the Yanks that liberated the first concentration camps, he never talked about it, only to say that it was hell on earth, he kept diaries.