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Remember stories from my father about that time. He served as a mechanic in the RCAF, stationed on the english coast. Prior to D-Day, they would mend the shot up planes ASAP to get them back out. All the while, evading the constant bombing.
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#Neverforget
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Hand salute to those that participated in the D-Day landings and to everyone that served in that awful war.
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Normandy is gorgeous and worth visiting on its own. As an American though, I knew I was on hallowed ground at Omaha Beach and Pont du Hoc. Omaha is much smaller than I had expected. The terrain is brutal though, and it’s easy to see why so many of those poor guys never made it to the bluff. I wouldn’t want to run up that sandy slope carrying 80 pounds of kit while trying to avoid bullets.
Pont du Hoc blows your mind because of what a nightmare that cliff must have been for the American Rangers to scale, and because you can’t really understand the firepower of a battleship until you have seen its handiwork. The craters from Texas’s 14 inch guns could swallow a small house. Chunks of reinforced concrete the size of a car were tossed about like pebbles. So many remnants of war still remain because they were almost impossible to remove at first, and now are preserved in memory of those who fought there.
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