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7 thoughts on “Lunchtime Photo”

  1. S1AMER

    And Canadian troops! Thousands of Canadians landed at Juno Beach, many of them died, and some are no doubt buried with the British at the cemetery shown and elsewhere.

  2. dilbert dogbert

    My older brother would be 100 this year.
    He was an aircraft mechanic in England and then in Europe.

  3. Justin

    On this day 80 years ago, my father was hiding from Germans with the underground in Belgium. He would be captured later in June, 1944 and sent to a prison camp in Poland until the end of the war.

    Just a regular guy thrust into impossible circumstances.

    1. lawnorder

      On this day 80 years ago my father was at a classified location in the North Atlantic on a convoy escort shepherding 160 shiploads of supplies for the guys then going ashore in Normandy. (It was an unusually large convoy; 80 ships was more common).

      1. MikeTheMathGuy

        My father also served on convoys that ran back and forth across the Atlantic -- he was in the Naval Armed Guard placed on the commercial ships, not on the naval vessels that accompanied them. I don't know if any of his trips were directly connected to D-Day.

        (Nine or so months later he was on the last Allied ship sunk at arms in the English Channel. All on board got off safely.)

  4. Salamander

    Thanks! About time we saw something other than the Americans, the Americans, the Americans.
    T
    My dad was 4F. The military wouldn't take him. It was his everlasting shame..

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