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Alex_UK
06-06-2019, 07:46
75 years since the D-Day landings. Incomprehensible what they went through. Lest we forget.

Just heard this on the radio - written and performed by a Normandy veteran - worth a few minutes of your time.

The Shores of Normandy - Jim Radford.

Recorded for the 70th Anniversary, but wouldn't it be fitting to see it at number one for the 75th commemoration?


https://youtu.be/DsVQMfxIfks

spotify:track:6AqTXy3pOC2fnJGJwNDHQE
Stryder5
06-06-2019, 08:01
Indeed!
Marco
06-06-2019, 08:18
Hear, hear!:clap:

We wouldn't be around now, and the world today would be a very different place without those chaps.

Marco.
Spectral Morn
06-06-2019, 08:38
Thank you for your service, and sacrifices.
Pepperamip
06-06-2019, 08:40
A pic of ny grandad kneeling at the front.

He drove a tank. Would've loved to have got to an age to be able question him about his experience (possibly wouldn't have wanted to talk about it)

A hero in my eyeshttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190606/83876227cf3aa4d5de76f66d4155249f.jpg

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struth
06-06-2019, 08:58
A pic of ny grandad kneeling at the front.

He drove a tank. Would've loved to have got to an age to be able question him about his experience (possibly wouldn't have wanted to talk about it)

A hero in my eyeshttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190606/83876227cf3aa4d5de76f66d4155249f.jpg

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Great picture.

Operation Neptune as it was called was the landing of 24 thousand men and equipment on the Normandy beaches under heavy fire.. An amazing feat of planning, bravery and at times luck.
As said, most of us wouldn't be here without it
Alex_UK
06-06-2019, 09:08
Great picture.

Yes, great picture. All of them heroes, and we must not forget the sacrifices made for our liberty.


An amazing feat of planning, bravery and at times luck.

Not to mention Operation Fortitude (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude) - the deception that helped with Neptune.
ReggieB
06-06-2019, 09:32
Qobuz has a hi-res version (https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/the-shores-of-normandy-jim-radford/krnwu5yeq49dc) available in the their download store
ReggieB
06-06-2019, 09:33
A hero in my eyes

Not just your eyes!
hifinutt
06-06-2019, 10:48
yes on sunday i was by the big slipway built for Operation Overlord and it now protected

HISTORY: The Brixham slipway and embarkation hard was built in 1943 as part of Operation Overlord, the springboard for the Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe. The hard was one of 68 purpose built structures constructed along the southern shores of England and Wales. Around another 40 existing slipways were used and some of these were adapted at this time. The Brixham hard in common with all the others was heavily used in the period immediately before the invasion and during the subsequent three weeks. The hard was derequisitioned on 27th February 1945. At the end of the war the associated jetties were removed and the concrete hard and slipway retained for commercial and leisure use. Between 1952 and 1965 a protective layer of concrete slabs was laid over most of the original surface.

Thinking of the few veterans able to make the journey , i was also helping to find a nursing home for a very highly decorated mosquito pilot in the normandy landings . lets not forget the many who fought on d-day in care and now very very infirm
Ninanina
06-06-2019, 17:08
Nice post...

I'm very grateful to all the heroes so that we can live our lives as we do today :)

Lot's going on in Portsmouth yesterday but didn't go near it as the advice was to stay well clear but while sitting in Lidl's car park watched the Red Arrows display, which was nice..;)
thingfish
06-06-2019, 17:36
Dulce et Decorum est
struth
07-06-2019, 07:44
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old, Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.
WESTLOWER
07-06-2019, 08:37
The Ultimate Sacrifice.
We are forever in their debt, now and forever.

My Grandad, Charles Henry Smith, was of the unfortunate age, he served in both World Wars.
He never recovered after returning from Normandy. Shellshocked, he was a troubled soul for his remaining years. He never spoke of it. Nan used to just ask, when he went into himself, to let him be.
That generation 'just got on with it', no help. And of course, he was one of the 'lucky ones'.


Thank you to them all.