"d" day today.

[koates]

Today we remember all the men from various countries who were in Normandy seventy years ago today. We owe them a debt and will always remember them. Heroes all. RIP. Regards, Kevin.

[George49Ford]

A big THANK YOU to all the D-Day and WWII vets out there on the Ford Barn.

[Steves46]

God Bless them all.

[Talkwrench]

Indeed a job well done boys! Lest we forget..

[sidevalve8ba]

It makes you wonder where we would be today if it weren't for those folks.

[cmbrucew]

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To all veterans
Thank you for your service (gift)
Bruce

[oldskool]

when I was 16 in 1958 I was a stock boy in a large supermarker bob worked the fish dept he was in the invasion along with his younger brother both survived,so this day is always special to me...my flag is flying proudly thanks to all who served

[mrtexas]

I couldn't say it better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEIqdcHbc8I

[Lawson Cox]

We have a man in our Sunday School class that landed at Normandy. We also have a man who was on board ship, headed toward an invasion of Japan at the end of WWII.

These men are members of the Greatest Generation of Americans. God bless them all.

[AnthonyG]

Indeed a large thank you and all honors to all the D day Vets. My dad was there and wounded, shrapnel from a mortar in the chest. Survive it and had a great life. Just passed at 90 last Dec. God bless him and you all who served!

[john worden]

Bravery beyond comprehension. Thank you.

[Barry-ct]

They had a job to do and they did it . Most came home and went to work. God bless all who served. My Dad went over later and came home. He passed at 57, so I never got a chance to try to get him to open up and thank him for his service to our country. I miss him every day!

[C4engr]

To ALL barners....
If you have children or grandchildren I ask that you get them in touch with a WWII vet and sit down with the vet for a few minutes to get a bit of the knowledge these guys gals can share. After all they changed the world so we could live on... Your family will love you for doing this..

Roger

[1963turnerjohn]

Grandpa jumped into Normandy on DDay - those young men had guts, pride and a stick-to-it attitude.

Prior to his AA experiences he hopped up the very 41 Ford I have now -
God bless them all

[Graeme / New Zealand]

D Day was yesterday for us down here at the "ass end of the world". I saw the British celebrations on TV and it was quiet stirring with a wreath laying at Pegasus Bridge where the Brit Airborne landed and successfully took it. That was the first landing. I have read Steven Ambroses books "Pegasus Bridge". "Band of Brothers" and "D Day" as well as may other chronicles on the subject. We should never forget the sacrifices by those during what was the biggest military invasion the world had ever seen and probably will be ever to be seen. New Zealand troops did not fight that campaign but we had people in the air with the RAF and on the sea with the Navy that day and we thank them along with our British, American and Canadian brothers, especially those who laid down their lives on the 5 beaches and beyond.

My 64 1/2 Mustang reminds me of this day each time I look at.

GB

[Rand]

Yes...America's Greatest Generation indeed
Thank you so much!
Randy

[mrtexas]

My dad couldn't pass the physical although he tried and was 21 in 1941. He stayed home and made B29s working for the Boeing Company starting in 1944 until 1982. He also launched men to the moon on top of the Boeing Saturn V rockets! He is 93 1/2 and still going strong driving up until a few weeks ago. Mom is 92.

[Richardtx]

What does "D" in D-Day stand for? Anyone know.

[1963turnerjohn]

The D stood for Day - then each successive 24 period after the landing was called D+1 etc

[tiger.1000]

D is for DESIGNATED........

In response to C4engr's comment about talking to old soldiers about the war. In my experience very few ever spoke about it and certainly not my dad whom I discovered was mentioned in despatches for bravery . I found out this by sorting out his papers after he died........

[Graeme / New Zealand]

" D" just stands for the Day (eg the day of some significant event). The same question was asked in the media here yesterday.

GB

Ps I've just edited. I didn't see the above posts. 1963 John turner is spot on with description

[Richardtx]

Thank you very much. Appreciate your answers.

[Henry Hopper]

My dad was 18 and went over DDay +1.....he never spoke about the war unless pressed...I can't imagine how he felt at such a young age.....Dad was always Dad, I never thought of him as a youngster, but it really brought it home to me when I thought about it today.

Without their sacrifice and in some case the ultimate sacrifice, we would not know life as we do...it's to easy to sweep it under the carpet and pass it off as history but we really do owe these men and women the utmost respect....True heroes.

RIP Dad....and thanks.

[1963turnerjohn]

Well said Henry!

[37coop]

My old Dad bless him was fighting in the mountains of Italy (grenadier guards infantry )at the time of D Day,even though he wasn't present on the beaches at that time it has still brought it home to me how tough life was for the young then . He passed away 17 years ago was my hero then and still is ,my Mum worked for an armaments factory in London and had the German bombers almost daily causing carnage ,proper people then and like most that went through it never really spoke about it ,god bless all of them , cheers Jim.

[Graeme / New Zealand]

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Can you imagine these kids of today in their "baggy assed" trousers with the crotches that drag on the ground, who wear their caps backwards and ride their skate boards everywhere...flying in the bombers and fighters, manning the naval vessels , jumping from perfectly good planes into the dark unknown, throwing up before storming mined beaches taking direct fire ( if they are lucky to get that far)??

GB

[Lawson Cox]

Originally Posted by Graeme / New Zealand

" D" just stands for the Day (eg the day of some significant event). The same question was asked in the media here yesterday.

GB

Ps I've just edited. I didn't see the above posts. 1963 John turner is spot on with description

When a military operation is being planned, its actual date and time is not always known exactly. The term "D-Day" was therefore used to mean the date on which operations would begin, whenever that was to be. The day before D-Day was known as "D-1", while the day after D-Day was "D+1", and so on. This meant that if the projected date of an operation changed, all the dates in the plan did not also need to be changed. This actually happened in the case of the Normandy Landings. D-Day in Normandy was originally intended to be on 5 June 1944, but at the last minute bad weather delayed it until the following day. The armed forces also used the expression "H-Hour" for the time during the day at which operations were to begin.

[model.A.keith]

We visited Pegasus Bridge on our way back from the FRSA Nationals a few years back.......









Drove over the 'new' bridge.......over to the right (by the flags) is where the first gliders landed.





This is the original Bridge now in the museum





we came across these guys heading for the beaches.....










If you ever get the chance take it ...the Museum is a very moving place to visit the letters and stories were heart breaking.



Lest we forget


RIP


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[gmc1941]

33 pairs of brothers and one father and son die in the invasion. Visited it last year and left a lasting memory of the devotion of these men. And they knew that the possibility of retuning was a pipe dream. GOD BLESS OUR TROUPS

[al's28/33]

I visited Pointe du Hoc (Omaha Beach) in 2000 and the entire bluffs atop the cliffs are shell holed and cratered from those days. Visiting one of the American cemeteries that day can't help to be overwhelmed by emotion, so may lives and what a horrific event to be part of. Many brave young men. History was made.

[Graeme / New Zealand]

Some of the German troops that manned the "Atlantic wall" were from "Oost" Batallions that were consripted from the occupied countries. The majority of them were only too happy to put their hands up to those that made it off the beaches.

GB

[scooder]

To me D day in this instance is the beginning of the free world we live in. I think we pretty much owe all that is good to the sacrifices of these soldiers. We came pretty close to hell on earth, and we were bought back, by these guys. I don't think there are words anywhere in any dictionary that I can use to describe my thanks to those that gave there everything and much more.
Martin.

[C4engr]

The Army began using the codes "H-hour" and "D-day" during World War I to indicate the time or date of an operation's start. Military planners would write of events planned to occur on "H-hour" or "D-day" -- long before the actual dates and times of the operations would be known, or in order to keep plans secret. And so the "D" may simply refer to the "day" of invasion.

Roger

[mikebishop]

Originally Posted by al's28/33

I visited Pointe du Hoc (Omaha Beach) in 2000 and the entire bluffs atop the cliffs are shell holed and cratered from those days. Visiting one of the American cemeteries that day can't help to be overwhelmed by emotion, so may lives and what a horrific event to be part of. Many brave young men. History was made.

My step-dad was a member of the 2d Ranger Battalion that assaulted Pointe du Hoc on D-Day. Many of them climbed hand-over-hand on ropes secured by grappling hooks fired from mortars on the narrow beach at the base of the cliffs. He said the rifle and machine-gun fire from the German defenders above them was relentless, augmented by potato-masher hand grenades bouncing down the slopes. Dad was one of twenty-something survivors of his 120-man platoon. After D-day, they were folded into an Infantry brigade and employed where their skills could best be utilized. He fought well and hard, mostly as a sniper because that was his special skill, all the way to the Battle of the Bulge, earning two Purple Heart injuries on the way until he was finally taken out of combat by injuries that sent him home, with one-half a jawbone and a dozen teeth missing.

He met my mom, an Army nurse, (divorced a year before from my father, an 8th Air Force airman), at Dibble General Hospital, Menlo Park, Calfiornia, just a half-hour south of the US Army Letterman hospital in San Francisco. Dibble was the military center for burn and reconstructive plastic surgery, and the medical staff did wonders there. My folks were married for just short of 50 years when my mom died, but I had another seven years to share with the old man. I love and miss him so much and am so proud of what he did for our country, and generations yet to come.

Mike

[keith oh]

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[keith oh]

And then there was Korea. I remember coming back on an old WW1 troop ship with over a thousand other guys, there were no greeting bands, parades, hawraws or celebrations, just a bunch of old busses waiting to transport us back the debarcation center. We were lucky though, there were over 51,000 that didn't get back. Then came VietNam!!!!!!!

[Graeme / New Zealand]

The Longest Day by Iron Maiden ( lyrics below the clip)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSJ8r...8rDlBZ_I#t=253


GB

[tiger.1000]

Mr Gwylim Rice-Evans, the original owner of my 32 Cabriolet.

Photo believed taken in the 1950's

Mr Rice-Evans worked for The War Department and assisted Barnes Wallis in creating the bouncing bomb.

[Henry Hopper]

I wonder if this is the same car?

[Lawson Cox]

Different fender mounted parking lights. painted vs chrome headlight buckets.

[AnthonyG]

Funny and nostalgic story, after my dad survived the shrapnel wound to the chest he sent the piece of shrapnel home to his family as a keep sake for when he got back. When he got home he asked where it was and his sister said "That disgusting thing, I threw it out because it had dried blood on it" that story we did get out of him and laughed many times.