ALL GAVE SOME SOME GAVE ALL.. "D DAY"

[4thIDvet]

D day .jpg D Day.jpg D-Day took place on June 6, 1944. It marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the massive Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France during World War II

The Allies suffered approximately 10,000 total casualties (killed, wounded, or missing in action) on June 6, 1944. Among these, recent painstaking research from the National D-Day Memorial Foundation has verified 4,414 confirmed Allied deaths on that single day. [1, 2, 3]

• United States: 6,603 total casualties (including 2,501 confirmed killed).
• United Kingdom: 2,700 total casualties.
• Canada: 946 total casualties. [1, 2]

Outline d-day's specific date and its general military meaning - Google Search

[merc]

Welcome home

Blessings ,
MERC

[ColonelKorn]

Salute. My dad's uncle, Bob Ledbetter, was a Pathfinder.

[4thIDvet]

Salute. My dad's uncle, Bob Ledbetter, was a Pathfinder.

I did not know what a 'pathfinder' was until I recently watched a documentary on them.. Talk about first in holy sheet those guys were some brave hombres. Not the Airborne not the Infantry not the AF or Naval bombardment the Pathfinders first parachuted in a bit before the invasion.
Their mission was to coordinate positioning beacons for the AF planes carrying troops to jump behind the lines. Their lights and radio beacons gave the AF planes their exact positions. Small teams working at night through enemy infested A.O.s.. Quite a high KIA among them when they bumped into Germans. Good men all.

The 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles" Pathfinders were elite paratroopers who jumped into Normandy just after midnight on June 6, 1944. Their mission: to secure and mark drop zones for the main airborne assault

101st pathfinders d'day - Google Search

[Sanders]

Guy I used to work for, one of the original bodybuilders in the US, parachuted in on D-Day with the 82'd Airborne into a patrol of Krauts and then straight to a POW camp. He never fired a shot. At 72, he could still walk up stairs in a handstand. R.I.P. Johnny Gibson.

[4thIDvet]

Guy I used to work for, one of the original bodybuilders in the US, parachuted in on D-Day with the 82'd Airborne into a patrol of Krauts and then straight to a POW camp. He never fired a shot. At 72, he could still walk up stairs in a handstand. R.I.P. Johnny Gibson.

What a wake up call for both sides. Krauts on a boring walking around the French countryside with a WTF are we doing out here mind set and all of a sudden the 82nd Airborne comes crashing through the trees almost on their heads. Whoops sorry guys didn't mean to startle you.