civicminded
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06-06-10 05:42 PM - Post#112575
I hope this has been posted elsewhere, but I do so in any case.
06 June 1944, lest we forget! 
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java and gelati
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Loc: allen tx
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06-06-10 07:25 PM - Post#112578
In response to civicminded
 I first visited the cemetery at Normandy with over 9,000 American graves when I was 12. By sheer coincidence, it was the anniversary of D-Day.
As once visitor put it, "if you can visit this cemetery & beach without crying, then you're already dead."
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civicminded
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06-06-10 07:29 PM - Post#112579
In response to java and gelati
Awesome story. One of my co-workers is there now. He took vacation time, and took a Veteran there. I think it's now on my to-do list also. 
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Aolain
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06-06-10 07:30 PM - Post#112580
In response to civicminded
Yep. Hard business that day.
Funny thing, we really do not know how many causalties (wia, kia, mia) were sustained in that one day of combat.
This is understandable as the chain of command was more interested in moving forward than logging one-day casualty lists.
The very best estimate of Allied casualties for D-Day come from a Canadian Army historical study.
Here is the link:
http://warchronicle.com/numbers/WWII/ddaycasu altye...
The guys who caught it worst were
-the Americans at Omaha (particularly the 16th and 116th Infantry Regiments who took about 50% casualties).
The Airborne Divisions: US 82nd and 101st, and British 6th.
The Canadians on Juno: The Canadians took about 50% casualties comparable to the US 16th and 116th).
I am prejudiced about all this though, as I served both in the 101st and the 16th Infantry in the 1980s.
Edited by Aolain on 06-06-10 07:41 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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