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Who among you remembers D-Day? It's been 70 years ago.?
I was 11 years old and old enough to have known the significance of the battles fought on land, sea and air in WW2. Those were real heros back then. Had it not been for those guys and their selfless sacrifices, I just wonder what our country would be like today. There were heros on the home front also, the people working long hours to produce the weapons that allow our troops and our allies to eventually win WW2. It's sad that even today we have troops fighting and dying in foreign countries for reasons far less obvious than what they were 70 years ago. God bless the survivors of that war and may we never forget that grand generation for what they did. The last time I posted something like this, I got a violation notice, that stated I'd been reported by trusted members of the community. If just a few get to read this before it's deleted, I'll feel it's worth the loss of 10 points.
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- LaurenceLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
I remember being really excited on D-Day that now (as I mistakenly thought) the war would soon be over, only to change my opinion completely within just a week as the Germans launched their mass V-1 flying bomb attack on London. To lessen the impact, a double agent was told to report back to the Germans that the bombs were missing their target by flying too far. Accordingly the Germans were deceived into shortening the range. This drastically reduced the number of bombs falling on Central London, but naturally increased the number falling short and landing on the city's southern suburbs. As that was precisely where I was living, it meant that for me, the latter part of June 1944 was the worst part of the whole war! I was 14 at the time, and so, when the War ended in May 1945, just after my 15th birthday, I had spent a third of my life living in wartime England.
- Anonymous7 years ago
My grandfather (now deceased) would've remembered it. He was born in 1918, he was 26 going on 27 when D day occurred. He actually read all about it in the daily times the next day. He saved the exact paper too (my uncle now has it).
- dadnbobLv 77 years ago
My FIL (age 91) remembers. He wasn't part of the landing force but was in England at the time.
- ?Lv 77 years ago
I was 16,and remember the planes carrying the gliders to France,we lived near an airfield in outer London,it was until the next day we knew why,also I remember it was a hot June day.
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- 7 years ago
My Mom remembers, she was 19 that year, and was working in a defense plant making parachutes.
- mydearsieLv 77 years ago
I remember it well. It was also the year my grandfather died. It was good to know that the war was finally closer to ending. My teachers and my fellow students were very patriotic and followed all of the news we could at that time.
- LARA, age 82Lv 77 years ago
I can tell you everything I was doing when I heard the news and I went to church to pray before going to high school and my counselor accepted my reason for coming in late.
- ForwardLv 67 years ago
By now most of us are not born during D Day. IT has been 70 years. Bur we know and remember it through history books.
- 7 years ago
I was less than a year old but my parents talked about it of course and we learnt a lot in school.