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01/6/2024 at 9:19pm
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In a way. My mother's cousin was married to an Irish Guard who whilst not in the first wave, was amongst those that followed to secure and advance from Pegasus bridge. Thankfully he survived unscathed and got to return to his family after the war.
I also went to school with a neighbour whose father was American, he was seriously wounded in the legs on the landings (I'm not sure I ever knew which beach), as far as I remember from what I was told, he was repatriated and was never fit enough to fight again, he suffered from the wounds for the rest of his life, they never really healed and would regularly become ulcerated.
The D-Day beaches (mostly Arromanches and the Mulberry Harbour remains), the museums, memorials, and war grave cemeteries have been a regular visit for us on our annual lads trip to Le Mans motor race each June. Although none of our group lost anyone there, we feel duty bound to pay our respects.
Last visit we went to the new British Normandy Memorial, the names of the 22,442 servicemen and women under British command who fell on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy laid out on the mass of walls is very, very sobering!
We attended the 75th anniversary events, and were due to attend this years 80th anniversary events, and had started making plans, but a couple of our group had serious health issues develop that prevented them attending, so we had to reluctantly call it off.
We're normally a boisterous, ribald, irreverent bunch, but on those visits, we fall silent with our thoughts and few words are exchanged during and for some time after our visits, a sombre and respectful atmosphere persists.
The young age of the Allied losses is shocking enough, but visit the war grave cemeteries and the German sections, and you quickly realise they threw their children into the thick of the conflict! The number of 16 and 17 year old casualties is simply appalling!
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Strange to think, that I would not have existed had it not been for the actions of Hitler.
My dad was a paratrooper, and whilst stationed near Droitwich was promoted to sergeant, he was paid daily for obvious reasons, but they had not increased his pay, so he went to the office to sort it out, and my mum worked in the pay office, and the rest they say is history.
My mother was from Rawtenstall, and my father was from Edinburgh, so had it not been for WW2 they would never have met.
Mum reached 80 & Dad 92 so many happy memories, and they first took me to the South of France camping in 1962 when I was 2 ! and I have been going back there ever since.
No D Day for my Dad, as he was in hospital with malaria at the time, having been serving overseas, and then went to serve in Malaya, returning in 1952 the first time he got to see my brother born in 1950.
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