john4
06-05-2005, 11:09 PM
On this day 61 years ago
Over 11,000 planes accompanied 5,000 ships carrying 150,000 men and 30,000 vehicles landed on 5 beaches in Normandy, and 6 parachute regiments were dropped somewhere behind enemy lines.
The Normandy campaign would cost over 425,000 Allied and German troops killed, wounded, or missing.
From D-Day to Christmas of 1944 German POW's averaged 30,000 per month and there were 33 POW Detention facilities in Texas alone.
At Omaha Beach Company A 116th Inf suffered 97% casualties during the first 10 minutes of the landing. The small town of New Bedford Virginia had 35 men in that unit and 20 were killed on D-Day.
"If you forget what happened here then your never going to improve things. It's never going to get any better. We must keep places like this alive" 80 year old veteran Donald Null of Federick, Md
Over 11,000 planes accompanied 5,000 ships carrying 150,000 men and 30,000 vehicles landed on 5 beaches in Normandy, and 6 parachute regiments were dropped somewhere behind enemy lines.
The Normandy campaign would cost over 425,000 Allied and German troops killed, wounded, or missing.
From D-Day to Christmas of 1944 German POW's averaged 30,000 per month and there were 33 POW Detention facilities in Texas alone.
At Omaha Beach Company A 116th Inf suffered 97% casualties during the first 10 minutes of the landing. The small town of New Bedford Virginia had 35 men in that unit and 20 were killed on D-Day.
"If you forget what happened here then your never going to improve things. It's never going to get any better. We must keep places like this alive" 80 year old veteran Donald Null of Federick, Md