I had the honor to know many men that landed at Normandie..one in
particular..was a US Navy UDT diver..SEABEES...The original "SEAL" team men.
He landed with a crew before almost anyone else with his crew and set
explosives so that the landing craft could get closer to the beach..they are
the men that left that sign that was mentioned in Searching for Private
Ryan....Can't say here what it really said....John Emmett Flynn was the name
of the BEE. Great man..great country then...
As I mentioned a while back..I saw the explosions from the ships that were
hit by German "U" boats..saw
the debree float into shore along the coast line..body part included...
After all the sacrifices the men and women of this country made for our
freedom.. ..where has it all gone ?? Why are we not "free" yet ?? Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry J. Fackovec" <fackovec@radiotech.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] D Day, tanks and a quip
> I heard the same interview on NPR, the sailor was none other than Yogi
> Berra. (When you come to a fork in the road, take it")
>
> Hank
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pedersen, Norm (C)" <norm.pedersen@connext.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 6:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] D Day, tanks and a quip
>
>
> > 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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