D Day June 6th

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[BallAquatics]

It's the 70th annaversary of D-Day today.  My uncle Virgil was a boatsman on one of the landing craft that day.  Pop said he never got over it.....

Dennis

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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military accomplishment, it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude, which protected and enabled the invasion, and the Double Cross system, which specialized in turning German spies into double agents, tricked the Nazis into believing that the Allied attacks would come in Calais and Norway rather than Normandy. It was the most sophisticated and successful deception operation ever carried out, ensuring Allied victory at the most pivotal point in the war. This epic event has never before been told from the perspective of the key individuals in the Double Cross system, until now. Together they made up one of the oddest and most brilliant military units ever assembled.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/books/review/double-cross-by-ben-macintyre.html?_r=0

[ghonk]

Man that must have been terrifying,don't know if i could have done it.Like a dead man walking for many when they got off those ships.

[Barb]

My mom, just turned 90 recently, told me what a dramatic and patriotic day that was for her on the University of Utah campus.  She was just finishing her junior year.  She is the last survivor of that generation in our family.  Her father was a cannon-firer in WWI. 
Barb

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..here's an interactive presentation....let it load.....click the pic to see that location now

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2014/jun/01/d-day-landings-scenes-in-1944-and-now-interactive