 deadhead  | 09 Mar 2020 7:34 a.m. PST |
Pure chance I came upon this but I found this fascinating. Everyone will know the photos of Omaha Beach featuring the rescue from the surf of half drowned GIs and a rubber dinghy. Few books about D Day fail to include something from the sequence. Well it turns out they are actually from D+1, when I thought weather conditions were much better. Some great film here (esp the last of the three video clips) and also research gone into identifying the characters themselves. link |
| DisasterWargamer | 09 Mar 2020 7:49 a.m. PST |
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| Desert Fox | 09 Mar 2020 8:16 a.m. PST |
WOW! What a WONDERFUL story! And GREAT research! |
| 79thPA | 09 Mar 2020 9:27 a.m. PST |
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| Texas Jack | 09 Mar 2020 9:49 a.m. PST |
That was indeed wonderful, thanks for sharing. I often wondered about that fellow and who he was. |
| Choctaw | 09 Mar 2020 10:11 a.m. PST |
One of the best articles ever posted on TMP. Thank you! |
 Mister Tibbles | 09 Mar 2020 11:00 a.m. PST |
I enjoyed reading that, especially since I used to live near where those men lived and worked in PA. A great piece. Makes me appreciate even more what everyone did on D-Day and beyond. Thanks for posting that. It also has me thinking about my own life as I'm getting older. 
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| 14Bore | 09 Mar 2020 1:22 p.m. PST |
Alsowant to add thanks for sharing, while not the same battalion my FiL was a D-Day combat engineer |
| 14Bore | 09 Mar 2020 5:40 p.m. PST |
Quite alot of his company was from Pennsylvania and as I remember some from Maryland and West Virginia. |
| Fred Mills | 10 Mar 2020 3:57 a.m. PST |
Excellent link. Many thanks. |
| Marc33594 | 10 Mar 2020 5:50 a.m. PST |
Indeed well worth the time. 14Bore, small world. My dad was assigned to one of the amphibious engineer brigades and went ashore on Omaha on D-day. |
| deadhead | 10 Mar 2020 6:27 a.m. PST |
So glad you all like did as much as I did. There must be so many iconic photos that have never been studied in this detail. Sadly, as the years go by, first hand accounts are becoming distinctly rarer and will soon be lost forever. What guts it took to tackle that surf and rescue those men off the landing craft. Great film. |
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