I heard a radio interview this morning with a man who was offshore on D-Day
in an LCSS [which evidently is a landing craft equiped to shell the German
mortar and machinegun emplacements on shore]. I forget the military
definition for LCSS but he said they called them Landing Craft Suicide
Squad. They were shelling the positions prior to the landing. His comment
was that "it was kinda like the 4th of July" !! And when the DJ asked about
being hit in the shoulder by a machinegun round he said "it hurt a little".
Those guys sure have my respect.
Norm Pedersen
no MV yet but looking.
-----Original Message-----
From: Henry J. Fackovec [mailto:fackovec@radiotech.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 3:01 PM
To: mil-veh@mil-veh.org
Subject: [MV] D Day, tanks and a quip
Hey All:
I am surprised to see no one making note of the anniversary of D Day.
I ran across a short article in the Boston Herald last week, about the tanks
that were lost fording ashore during the invasion. In true Herald fashion
there were few details, but they reported that there was a team working on
documenting and recovering the tanks. They report that there is one section
of the sea floor that looks like a squadron of tanks is in perfect formation
just waiting the order to move out...
As a personal note, My father was a Merchant Marine and was bringing in
troops during the first wave of the invasion, when I asked him for his
thoughts about the greatest armada the world had ever seen assembled and the
invasion, In his usual underplaying manner he said his only impression of D
day was it was "kind of loud" <G>. To meet my father you would understand:
He was torpedoed in the North Atlantic and spent several days floating on a
raft, and his impression of that was that it was "a little inconvenient
<LOL>. (And I get pissy when the Starbucks foams instead of froths my latte.
LOL).
Humbly submitted,
Hank Fackovec
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