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May 27, 2024, 11:23 AM

A church in Normandy where Allied paratroopers landed (notice that one on the church roof):


After the war the church was repaired - notice the stained glass windows honoring our paratroopers and soldiers:


Bomb Crater:


German gun:


Observation bunker where the lookout reported seeing thousands of ships and was told it was impossible. He said "Then you come here and tell me what I'm seeing!":


A towed glider like the ones that landed on the river bank and discharged troops to blow the bridge (mostly plywood frame and fabric covered):


Entrance to the American Cemetery:


Mont Saint-Michel:
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Re: Normandy

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May 27, 2024, 12:56 PM

Strom Thurmond landed a glider on Normandy...he was one
of many brave young Clemson men to fight in the war.
Since Clemson was then Clemson A&M at that time, they
had a lot of young officers who had graduated and some
who delayed their college to go fight.Some came back
home and finished school.

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Normandy 2022

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May 28, 2024, 6:52 AM

On the basketball trip, we visited Normandy and the cemetery. The group placed Tiger rags and Clemson medallions on the graves of the six Clemson men buried in the cemetery.

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Normandy 2022

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May 28, 2024, 6:53 AM [ in reply to Re: Normandy ]

On the basketball trip, we visited Normandy and the cemetery. The group placed Tiger rags and Clemson medallions on the graves of the six Clemson men buried in the cemetery.

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May 27, 2024, 1:20 PM

Amazing pictures! I really appreciate your posting this.

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May 27, 2024, 1:25 PM

Great pictures! Thank you for sharing! Remembering and memorializing our country’s best, the reason for freedom!

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May 27, 2024, 4:04 PM

I will be at Normandy this Friday. Look forward to my second trip there. It will take your breath away.

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May 27, 2024, 7:24 PM

Tiger14 said:

I will be at Normandy this Friday. Look forward to my second trip there. It will take your breath away.



I've been twice and it will definitely take your breath away. I don't know how our guys made it up the beach.

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Here is an interesting story about the paratrooper on the steeple....

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May 27, 2024, 10:07 PM

...and others in the area.

https://www.normandyamericanheroes.com/blog/sainte-m%C3%A9re-eglise-paratrooper-john-steele

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May 28, 2024, 9:32 AM

My wife and I did a similar agenda trip back in 2021, the beaches and memorial sites were really difficult places to visit if you know anything about the history of it. The stories at the sites of the individual sacrifices those men gave really evoke a strong emotional response, especially when they talk about their lives back home before the war. I think it’s somewhere important that everyone should visit once in their lives to really understand what incredible individuals it took to liberate Europe

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May 28, 2024, 11:10 AM

Had an 8th grade English and history teacher…. We didn’t call him Mr. Bale, we always called him “ Colonel Bale”.

He didn’t seem to like using classroom time to talk about his experiences but we implored him to tell us all the time anyway. He explained he had been a “buck private” at Normandy, making all of a dollar a day.

I remember him telling us he arrived on Omaha Beach with the second wave ( June 7th ). …..Said he didn’t have one bullet wiz past his head that morning but when the front of his Higgins boat dropped open he literally walked ashore on American and Canadian bodies. He had plenty more personal experiences to relate in pushing the Nazis back to Berlin.

I wish my children’s generation and the ones that have since followed could have had the privilege of hearing directly from men like him.

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Re: Normandy - bucket list and The Longest Day***

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