... And proud to be an Airman.

Reflecting on the 29,000 American Airmen -- and a like number of RAF Airmen -- lost in the bloody war of attrition in the skies over Europe, who courageously took the fight directly to the enemy, swept away their air power, bled their resources dry, and provided the very predicate for success in the liberation of France and Europe.

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The 65th Anniversary of D-Day

On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied soldiers clambered aboard heaving landing craft and braved six-foot swells, waves of machine gun fire, and more than 6 million mines to claim a stretch of sand at a place called Normandy. Their mission was to carve out an Allied foothold on the edge of Nazi-occupied Europe for the army of more than one million that would follow them in the summer of 1944. This army would burst forth from the beachhead, rolling across Europe into the heart of Germany, liberating millions, toppling a genocidal regime, and ending a nightmare along the way. But it all began on this beach in France, with an army of teenagers on a day called D-Day.

The 65th anniversary of D-Day will find our youngest D-Day and WWII veterans turning 82 years of age. The years to come will find ever fewer of them among us, and fewer still able to travel and share their stories.

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Remember and give thanks to the men and women that gave their lives so we and others may live in FREEDOM.
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D-Day was also the baptism under fire for the Allied Frogman.... unlike the gear whores of today - these intrepid Divers, Engineers and UDT men swam ashore with some unstable demo, markers, and a grease pencil into withering fire in order to mark the landing zones and clear obstacles - first in and last out! All volunteers and they got a whopping extra few bucks a month.

Born of D-Day (and assorted landings in the Pacific Theater) was the UDT, UCT, Army Divers, SEALs, EOD, Force Recon, Combat Controllers and PJ's.

"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free..." President Ronald Reagan - Omaha Beach

Damn, I just watched the whole Band of Brothers like two days ago...

Even thou it is not considered a national holiday, I fly the American Flag today for Erv. Landed D-Day +2.

i spent today in reading, pa. world war II weekend. crazy. p47, p51's, b17's, spitfire, corsair, re-enactments. i do it every year.