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    Did any of your family take part in D-day

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    edited February 23 in Chit-Chat
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    • 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.
    • 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:
    • 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.
    • Posts: 8,646 Member
      Yes. 2 of my great uncles.
    • 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.
    • Posts: 914 Member
      My great uncle Bert did.
    • Posts: 4,301 Member
      2 uncles.
    • 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.
    • Posts: 405 Member
      my Grandad did, he didn't talk about it often and now is no longer around to ask about it.
    • 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.
    • Posts: 417 Member
      My paternal grandfather was in the 82nd Airborne. :heart:
    • 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.
    • Posts: 117 Member
      My father landed on Omaha on the June 8th as reinforcements.

      Took him back to Normandy in '97. Very emotional.
    • Posts: 575 Member
      My father in-law was on Omaha Beach. Be was promoted from Srg. to 1st. LT. the next day. Field promotion.
    • 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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