What happened that day on Omaha Beach

[kragluver]

I would like to visit Normandy some day. Your description of tears on the beach match my emotions when I first visited "The Wall" in DC. By the time I reached the apex of the memorial where the wall is at its highest point, tears were streaming down my face. I was embarrassed to be seen by passers-by until I realized that many of them were tearful as well.

[John Sukey (Deceased)]

They lie just above the landing beaches. I saw markers here dated from June 6th up through the vicious hedgerow battles into August, including one American woman. I wondered, "Who were you, what were you doing here, how did you die?"

All so sad.

Louis of PA

Perhaps it might be an idea to send pics of those cemetaries to our "presydent' the next time he wants to call America a "muslim country"

[Litt'le Lee]

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[Mk VII]

The accuracy of Marshall's account has been called into question. The notebook which he supposedly wrote it up from in 1960 has not been traced among the Marshall papers.

"I am the only survivor off that landing craft and I have never, never told anybody that Captain Zappacosta pulled his gun on that coxswain and told him to take that boat in. It did not happen."

--Bob Sales, B Company, 116th Regiment, 29th Division

Stephen Ambrose and the British coxswains

[PrivatePaula]

@ Louis of PA: Images of that cemetary touch me everytime I see them...
That wide range of white on the green lawn crosses is deeply touching to me.

I went to the Normandy a few times. It's a really strange atmosphere there I think. The entire shore is full of old vaults.
some are still intact others are heavily damaged because the french tried to demolish them. There are very many museums in old vaults over there.

It was horrible to imagine that there were many men fighting for their lifes on the beaching you walk along 65 years later.