Thankfully there are certain days in the American calendar that honors those who fought in WWII. The unfortunate side effect of the D-Day invasion being one of the most prominent is that all other d-days seem to have been forgotten by people today. So today I would like to not only honor those who charged the MG-42's and 88's of the Norman bluffs but also those who landed, fought, and sometimes fell on all d-days during the war. It is our good fortune that we have several of those men as regular contributors here. So here's to Joe of the 3rd (Nous Resterons LÃ !) and Roque of the 34th (Attack, Attack, Attack!) who were there a whole 20 months before most of those landing on those awful Normandy beaches (with the major exceptions of the Big Red One, 82nd Airborne, and Rangers.) As for the other WWII veterans we have in the forum, please don't take offense if I do not mention your name here. I know we have SgtLeo, Chucktoo, alkincer, and of course PapaArt to name a few - I just don't know your story as well.
So here's to all who got their feet wet (or jumped out of a perfectly good airplane toward people shooting at them) in invasions across the globe from 41-45. And one more special toast to the Marines and sailors at Inchon - that other invasion in the Forgotten War.
