Julien Boit Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 63 Years ago, young men and women gave their lives for freedom. Let's remember their sacrifices for our freedom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Do you happen to have the stats on the number of women who gave their lives in the D-Day Invasion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikiDale Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 (edited) I believe these numbers cover June 6 through August 25 for the Normandy Invasion. From Wikipedia: United States: 29,000 dead, 106,000 wounded and missing; United Kingdom: 11,000 dead, 54,000 wounded and missing; Canada: 5,000 dead; 13,000 wounded and missing; France: 12,200 civilian dead and missing Edited to note I should learn to read the question. Edited June 6, 2007 by AikiDale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JThompson Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Do you happen to have the stats on the number of women who gave their lives in the D-Day Invasion? Woman weren't allowed that honor, but you can bet your a$$ there would have been some there had they been allowed too. JT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckS Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Do you happen to have the stats on the number of women who gave their lives in the D-Day Invasion? There are 4 women buried in the cemetary at St. Laurent, over looking Omaha Beach. I saw one of them when I was there a couple weeks ago and she had died in 1945. I am not sure about the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhgtyre Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Thanks for this thread Julien. I am going to take my father in law out for dinner tonight to commemorate this day. He is a WWII vet and though he wasn't part of the D-Day invasion he had friends who were. One is still around. I'll be foisting a beer in their honor for certain. -ld Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ima45dv8 Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Thanks Julien for reminding everyone that today was the 63rd anniversary of Operation Overlord, also known as "D-Day", the Normandy campaign. With many making the ultimate sacrifice, our soldiers paid a terrible price to win freedom for all. I found a very interesting read at: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/normandy/Nor-MOH.htm It lists the Army's official biographies of D-Day Medal Of Honor recipients. 9 of the 12 were awarded posthumously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GentlemanJim Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 My deepest respects to those who stood against evil and gave thier lives, for the worlds freedom...so many years ago. And also to the ones who serve today. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 It still gives me chills to think about it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 (edited) "Involved in the initial assault: 185,000 troops, 18,000 paratroopers, 13,175 aircraft, 4,066 landing ships, 745 large ships, 20,000 vehicles, 347 minesweepers. Gold, Sword and Juno beaches hit by the British were guarded by Russians in German uniform who broke and ran making it realtively easy for the British to get off the beaches. The Americans landing at Utah and Omaha faced a dug in division on practice manuevers and were nearly pushed back into the sea. The USS Nevada was present and had also been at Pearl Harbor. HMS Warspite was the only ship at Jutland in 1916 and at the D-Day assault" -Take from World War II 4,139 strange and fascinating facts by Don McCOmbs and fred L Worth page 136. Edited June 7, 2007 by RoyceLowellPatton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Front Man Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Today Paul Harvey said 6,000 were lost on 06.06.1944. I would assume most of them on the beach and the rest in other operations such as the glider crashes and such. FM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritinUSA Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Unsung heroes of D-Day are too numerous to mention; One that springs to mind is Bill Millin. Millin was a private in Lord Lovat’s Scottish lst Commando Brigade on D-Day, June 6, 1944. As they approached Sword Beach Lovat ordered Millin to play the pipes – against the wishes of senior officers. A photograph of him playing his bagpipes as German shells exploded around him was printed in newspapers around the world. Marching along the beach during the German attack, Millin played Highland Laddie, Blue Bonnets Over the Border and The Road to the Isles. The lst Brigades’ mission on D-Day was to relieve Maj. John Howard and the British commando’s glider brigade at Pegasus Bridge. As Lovat’s men neared the bridge, Howard’s brigade, out of ammunition, could hear Millin’s pipes, assuring them relief was on the way. He is shown in the foreground in this picture from D-Day, he carried his bagpipes and his only weapon was a knife. He later recreated his role in the 1962 movie 'The Longest Day' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gameplayer Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Thanks to all of our D-Day veterans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoShooter Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 just a small thought went past my brain...?I wonder if Clint Eastwood has any plans for a German point of view on D Day ... I hope not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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