Did any of your family take part in D-day

303enfield
303enfield Posts: 239 Member
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  • JonnyMacAwesome
    JonnyMacAwesome Posts: 770 Member
    Pretty sure Grandfather did... can't ask him anymore to find out though...and he never wanted to talk about his experiences there.
  • askeates
    askeates Posts: 1,490 Member
    My grandfather was onboard a Navy ship on D-Day.... not really sure where at the time as he spoke very little of that time, and he is gone now so I cannot ask him :cry:
  • jimbmc
    jimbmc Posts: 83 Member
    My Dad was at Sword Beach (British Landing Forces). He was in the East Lancashire Regiment, aged around 18 at the time.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    Yes. 2 of my great uncles.
  • MiloBloom83
    MiloBloom83 Posts: 2,724 Member
    My Grandfather welded together many of the landing craft that were used that day. He fought the war in a welding booth.
  • Lilly_the_Hillbilly
    Lilly_the_Hillbilly Posts: 914 Member
    My great uncle Bert did.
  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    2 uncles.
  • SunofaBeach14
    SunofaBeach14 Posts: 4,899 Member
    My grandfather was a bomber pilot and was killed later that year bombing the country of his father's birth.

    The man I called grandfather was on a Navy ship fighting in the Pacific theater.

    My other grandfather worked in a steel mill during that time.
  • ChrissyC1985
    ChrissyC1985 Posts: 405 Member
    my Grandad did, he didn't talk about it often and now is no longer around to ask about it.
  • maz504
    maz504 Posts: 450
    No, but we recently learned my grandfather was in the first wave of U.S. troops to liberate one of the German concentration camps (forgive me, my memory escapes me now - it wasn't one of the more notorious ones like Auschwitz or Birkenau). He's still alive but doesn't talk about it so it's been a lot of research on my sister's part to get the real story. Amazing man.
  • Michelle_Padgett13
    Michelle_Padgett13 Posts: 417 Member
    My paternal grandfather was in the 82nd Airborne. :heart:
  • amwbox
    amwbox Posts: 576 Member
    My great uncle was on a Navy ship off the Normandy coast on D-Day. My maternal grandfather fought in the Aleutians and elsewhere in the pacific. My paternal grandfather was in North Africa and later Italy.
  • Da_Big_Kahuna
    Da_Big_Kahuna Posts: 117 Member
    My father landed on Omaha on the June 8th as reinforcements.

    Took him back to Normandy in '97. Very emotional.
  • ssaraj43
    ssaraj43 Posts: 575 Member
    My father in-law was on Omaha Beach. Be was promoted from Srg. to 1st. LT. the next day. Field promotion.
  • eddiesmith1
    eddiesmith1 Posts: 1,550 Member
    My Uncle Bill was a gunner on one of the destroyers that heavily shelled the beaches just pre landing , he took flack and suffered back issues the rest of his life after being flung from his perch to a lower deck. He joined up at 15 after lying about his age he was 21 when the war ended and had been sunk twice and spent time training forces in had to hand combat at Camp X. Crazy *kitten* but I really liked him

    My Wife's Father was also there with the British navy and he was part of the naval intelligence corp (and was one of the earliest into the concentration camps he had some interesting stories but hated talking about it from what I hear - he died before I met my wife)

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