75 years ago to the minute

[srdiver (Tim)]

Lieutenants Bobby de la Tour, Don Wells, John Vischer & Bob Midwood of the 22nd Independent Parachute Company, set their watch on June 5, 1944 at RAF Harwell Base.

a storm is coming to the shores of France

[srdiver (Tim)]

D-Day timeline

Tuesday, June 6, 1944 hour by hour, minute by minute

This page presents 308 events that marked D-Day to relive operation Overlord hour by hour, minute by minute (an event every 5 minutes for 24 hours).

Not the Hollywood version of the Longest Day

https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/d-day/timeline

[Grenz45 (Richard C.)]

We must remember those who never left Normandy or the surrounding country.
They died for the ideals and freedoms we have today as well as for the world.
We must persevere and protect those freedoms not only for ourselves but also for others.
And we must fight to ensure they are never taken from us.

[Merlin7 (Robert Zoerb :mage::zap::us:)]

The multi-military cooperation of D-Day put awe to the test. This, too, should be the attributes assigned to all military personnel, those in past and future, the dead and missing, but more especially the survivors of these battles who still remember and grieve. Thanks

[ABTC_inc (JD)]

It’s was an eerie feeling walking on that beech…