June 6th, 1944.
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) June 6, 2026
The English Channel is angry and half the men in the landing craft are seasick. Diesel fumes mix with saltwater and vomit while rifles are checked for the fifth or sixth time by hands that need something to do. Nobody talks much anymore because the jokes have all… pic.twitter.com/hDWFY38Ka8
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Dad was waiting to be sent into France two weeks later. He was a combat engineer that helped Patton’s 3rd Army ford rivers, including the Rhine. My Uncle Lee was at Omaha Beach, I didn’t know this till after he passed in 81. That explained much.
Post D-Day I would have 3 relatives KIA in France (on June 8, July 9, July 14).
Another had already been KIA in Italy January 7, posthumous DSC.
And finally the man whom I am named in honor of would be lost at sea when USS Indianapolis was sunk July 29, 1945.