Thanks for starting this Brian.
Brave Heroes. I know of no other way to describe the men who ran off the landing craft onto the beach in a hail of bullets.
D-Day - June 6, 1944
If we had today's information technology at that time in history, we would be speaking Japanese with a German accent.
Many of us in the Pacific Theater did not even know about D-Day until much later - we had Midway, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima and others as a distraction.
Just add up those casualties!
Saipan in the Mariana Islands from
15 June � 9 July 1944IIRC, it sure was hot on that troop ship on
June 6, 1944..I had not even remembered until today this coincidence...
George
