worth a look

[fleshpedler]

Hi guys just found this there are some cracking pics here.. just sit back and enjoy .
Fleshy......................
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(hope this does not contravene any copywrites............ sorry if it does ......)

[KV1s]

I don't know what to say

Kind of brings it all home..

Aaron

[BREL]

thank you Pete for sharing this,
I do not know what to say after looking at the pictures.
a lot of brave men died during the liberation of Europe from the Nazi regime
may they rest in peace forever

[majordisastor]

Even after the passing of many years these pictures still have the power to shout along the corridor of time....its up to us to listen.....

[tankman]

Very moving and thought provoking series of photos even after all this time. Thank you for posting them Peter.
Alan

[raven]

thanks for sharing fleshy i really enjoyed looking at those photos

chris

[grim_marmazet]

Fantastic pictures Fleshy! I'm reading Max Hasting's Overlord (highly recommended if you want a good history of the Battle of Normandy), and it makes you realise how intense the fighting was. Even vastly outnumbered the Germans were a superior fighting force.
We were lucky to win in Normandy, if the German's had been better prepared, or responded quicker, we might have lost.

I have a lot of respect for the men who fought there for our freedom.

Cheers,
Rik

[wibblywobbly]

I'll never forget reading about the machine gunner in one of the bunkers overlooking Omaha. He was about 18, and just kept firing. No one in the bunkers could believe that no matter how many troops they killed, others just kept coming? He is stated as having used 10,000 rounds of ammunition, and although his comrades were killed, he survived.

Strange, but true.

I was chatting to the vets in and around Omaha a couple of years ago, one told me that he got off the beach with his best mate, and came under fire. The pair of them dived for shelter against a shed when an incoming round hit a tree next to them. He lifted his head up and his friend who was right next to him had been cut in half. You don't get much closer than that.

I heard many tales, but the one thing that I never heard was even a hint of 'look at me I'm a vet'. Every single one of of those guys were, even in their twilight years, looking out through glazed eyes. Their memories of those days never, ever faded, they had to live with them, day in, day out, through all of that life heaped on them in the post-war years. No one made allowances for what they had been through, and that is the saddest thing of all.

I always shook the hand of each one that I spoke to, and could only hope that I had sufficient gratitude in my eyes.

Rob G

[shotgun]

My DAD was there on board a DD that was making runs supporting the landing troops. He was on the bridge with Bino's watching for signals from shore for fire support. Never talked about it much, except cried when he recalled it. Sad how we have short changed our freedoms today. Shotgun

[panzer3]

my father went in on D-day on sword beach ,,,,,he died in December 1999 he never spoke much of the war but i know he lost good friends that day and after , and he always said , many good men never came home
i had the honour to get to the beaches in 2006 ,,, so i do understand the respect these men deserve .
to me they were all heros