Thank you, Tom. In the Eastern time zone, we were of course some 8 hours behind eastern Europe, so, when we woke up the invasion was already underway. I was by then eleven years old, and far more excitable. But even my dad was pretty excited. To all of this seemed like the beginning of the end. There were, of course, a lot more casualtie…
Thank you, Tom. In the Eastern time zone, we were of course some 8 hours behind eastern Europe, so, when we woke up the invasion was already underway. I was by then eleven years old, and far more excitable. But even my dad was pretty excited. To all of this seemed like the beginning of the end. There were, of course, a lot more casualties yet to come. It took almost 11 months to finish the job, but we could finally see the end in sight.
As a matter of fact, the majority of the casualties in the ETO happened beween D-Day and VE-Day. Every infantry unit in the American Army had 100% casualties - dead and wounded - during that period of the force that landed on June 6..
Agreed, there were a lot of tight fights still to come with the nazis determined to shed as much blood as possible, including sending boys as young as 14 to be cannon fodder to 'protect' their seasoned troops.
Thank you, Tom. In the Eastern time zone, we were of course some 8 hours behind eastern Europe, so, when we woke up the invasion was already underway. I was by then eleven years old, and far more excitable. But even my dad was pretty excited. To all of this seemed like the beginning of the end. There were, of course, a lot more casualties yet to come. It took almost 11 months to finish the job, but we could finally see the end in sight.
As a matter of fact, the majority of the casualties in the ETO happened beween D-Day and VE-Day. Every infantry unit in the American Army had 100% casualties - dead and wounded - during that period of the force that landed on June 6..
Agreed, there were a lot of tight fights still to come with the nazis determined to shed as much blood as possible, including sending boys as young as 14 to be cannon fodder to 'protect' their seasoned troops.