Normandy D-Day Landing photos

[Walt's Daughter]

Hey Clementine:

 

I had a similar experience a few years ago. I received a photo from the son of a man who served with my dad in the motor pool. In the photo was his dad and my dad with all the names. What a thrill that was. I have it sitting on my desk and look at it every day.

 

I can imagine!! How wonderful.

 

I will say that we had one experience like that with my mother's father. She was English and her father served in the RAF and he was killed when his plane was shot down over Germany in March of 1942. In all of my years growing up I'd only seen one photo of him when he was very young and it was a small photo and it was taken at a distance.

 

We were trying to find information on him a few years ago and my cousin connected with a man in Australia whose father was on the crew with my grandfather. He had a photo of my grandfather's squadron and he emailed it to her. To have someone on the other side of the world send a photo of my grandfather after all of these years, and one where you could actually see him, is nothing short of miraculous.