diolma opened this issue on Apr 16, 2008 ยท 8 posts
orbital posted Thu, 17 April 2008 at 1:35 PM
My Grandad was taking the GI'S into shore dday+2. The place was still recieving shell fire and there was still a lot of bodies on the beach. They had to force these guys off at gunpoint .
It's somewhere I've always wanted to go, along with the trenches at the Somme.
What those boys did should never be forgotten, shame we still haven't learnt our lesson.
Just changing the subject, I purchased a series on DVD called Ross Kemp in Afganistan. This was shown on sky one recently and folows a platoon from the Royal anglian regiment in Helmand provence. Really opens your eyes to how war is fought today. I'd recommend anyone with an interest to have a look.