D day dodgers

[Walt's Daughter]

As the British would say, "Bloody good words, mate!"

 

Thanks for posting that Paul. Had never heard it before. Says it all doesn't it?

 

I can't tell you how many folks I talk to who say that their loved one was over there for the whole war. What they are referring to is from June 6th and on. The whole war I say? Nope baby that started a long time before that. I then happen to mention that the 540th landed in North Africa the 2nd week of November 1942. By the time D-Day Normandy occurred, they had already racked up 20 months in the ETO.

 

You then have to remind them that there was also fighting going on in the Pacific since Dec 7th, 1941. There were fierce battles fought through islands and on sea in 1942.