75th anniversary of D-Day

More about the pacific theatre but I recently started listening to the Corp series. I’ve read it 5 or 6 times but many years ago. I’d forgotten just how good that series is.
 
Chdamn said:
More about the pacific theatre but I recently started listening to the Corp series. I’ve read it 5 or 6 times but many years ago. I’d forgotten just how good that series is.
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A lot of people don't think about it, but by the time OVERLORD and NEPTUNE rolled around, we had been in the Pacific three years. In fact, we had another D-Day, in the Marinas, just a couple weeks after OVERLORD.
 


This iconic pic is of two soldiers assigned to "The Filthy 13" (about whom the movie The Dirty Dozen was based), a demo unit whose job was sabotage behind enemy lines. My uncle, a combat engineer with the 101st ABN, made every jump, and did the same thing for the duration of the war.
 
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in memoriam
John Craven Taylor, Sr. (1914-1963)
Beachmaster on D-Day
Bronze Star (for valor saving numerous lives at great risk on "Bloody Omaha")
RIP, Daddy. You always did your best.
 
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I did nazi that coming
 
Djstorm100 said:
This was a big day for both European theater and Pacific. Our boys were landing in France and boys half way across the world were fighting at the Battle of Midway. Both enemies would be on the defensive from that day on.



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Midway was 1942. But just a couple weeks after D-Day the forces in the Pacific took on the Marianas/Philippine Sea.
 
Chuckman said:
Midway was 1942. But just a couple weeks after D-Day the forces in the Pacific took on the Marianas/Philippine Sea.
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I did it again, 2 years ago said something along the same lines. I knew better, in my hast forgot it was the 2nd anniversary of Midway.
 
Chuckman said:


This iconic pic is of two soldiers assigned to "The Filthy 13" (about whom the movie The Dirty Dozen was based), a demo unit whose job was sabotage behind enemy lines. My uncle, a combat engineer with the 101st ABN, made every jump, and did the same thing for the duration of the war.
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