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\\6th JUNE 1944 ~~ 'D DAY'//
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Jeniwren | Report | 5 Jun 2012 22:17 |
68 years ago today, D Day, marked the |
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Suzanne | Report | 5 Jun 2012 22:48 |
my mum was 3 and her dad was in france :-D |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 6 Jun 2012 04:59 |
A day that is etched in the minds of many of those relatives of the men lost and always in the mind of those who did return, and their families. So many brave acts occurred on this date. |
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JackyJ1593 | Report | 6 Jun 2012 08:24 |
We have a D Day in our family every year as it is my brother David's birthday. My Dad was involved in the D.Day landings. I wasn't too interested as a child but wish he was here now to talk about it. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 6 Jun 2012 09:11 |
I was 3 as well and too young to know what was going on. But the bravery of our troops past and present should, of course, always be remembered. Bless them all. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 6 Jun 2012 11:01 |
I was seven but can't say I was aware at the time - as everyone says, the bravery of our troops and the US is unsurpassed, even today with all the wars going on in the world - to have been on the beaches with the Germans on top of them kiling right left and centre it's a wonder any got out alive - but for them we might very well not be free today - they made the ultimate sacrifice |
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Julia | Report | 6 Jun 2012 16:12 |
May I contribute a little story to this. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 6 Jun 2012 16:18 |
Wow - that must have been frightening!! we had an evacuee from Birmingham - Doreen - she had been bombed out and was petrified everytime the German bombers came over our little cotttage on the hillside where we lived - I ws only five so couldn't understand |
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Julia | Report | 6 Jun 2012 16:23 |
AnnCardiff, I still have vivid memories of, clutching my father's hand, when I was about 5, as we ran across train lines in Glasgow station, a few years after the war. Bomb damage was still very evident, all around. They wanted to hit the shipyards. I have never seen anything like it in my life, and even at that age, knew what it was all about. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 6 Jun 2012 16:43 |
I can remember the sound of the German planes coming over - even now I could tell the difference between the sound of the "hun" and the sound of a Spitfire!!! At the bottom of the mountain road where we lived was the ROF factory and they were always trying to hit that - using the road as a guide - one night they hit it and killed a lot of the night shift |
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Elizabethofseasons | Report | 6 Jun 2012 19:07 |
Dear All |
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Suzanne | Report | 6 Jun 2012 21:05 |
my mum tells me that the hospital she was born in was bombed during the war and my nan had to run across the court yrd with a newborn baby)to get to the shelter.this was liverpool oct 1940.her dad was in france and her 3yr old sister was being looked after by her grandparents,how frightening it must have been for my nan,not knowing if her parents,child or husband were safe.x :-( |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 6 Jun 2012 21:34 |
friend of my Mum's went to the hairdressers and when she returned home the house had been bombed killing her mother, sister and her son |
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Suzanne | Report | 6 Jun 2012 21:56 |
oh how terrible ANN |
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