Sugar_Army Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 I love how the King has more medals on his chest than the vetrans he is meeting...I would have a minter. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post scottsdad Posted June 5 Popular Post Share Posted June 5 The real shame here is that D-Day has been hijacked by bellends not fit to lace the boots of the people who were actually there. Ordinary men running into hell. Just normal guys achieving an extraordinary feat. 80 years on it's all flags, medals, royals and politicians hoovering it up hoping to get some glory reflected on them. 29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 It’s woman sporting WW2 hairstyles and warbling away and various gammon bellends living vicariously through their grandads deeds. Shameless. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smurph Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 9 minutes ago, scottsdad said: Ordinary men running into hell. Just normal guys achieving an extraordinary feat. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 When men were men and pansies were flowers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 23 minutes ago, Scary Bear said: It’s woman sporting WW2 hairstyles and warbling away and various gammon bellends living vicariously through their grandads deeds. Shameless. What woman is this? I hope you are not going to disappoint. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 As somebody told me last year, without a trace of awareness "Today we celebrate the day America saved the world!" -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 They were all just fighting over poppies because the aristocracy was addicted to laudanum. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Has anyone seen Captain Tom's daughter? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 and the men and women came home from the war, saw what needed doing after living through both the Depression and the War, and voted in a Socialist government instead of Churchill. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 2 minutes ago, Shotgun said: As somebody told me last year, without a trace of awareness "Today we celebrate the day America saved the world!" This makes me furious. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 1 hour ago, Sugar_Army said: I love how the King has more medals on his chest than the vetrans he is meeting...I would have a minter. I hope he didn't borrowed any medals from his Great Uncle, Eddie VIII. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar_Army Posted June 5 Author Share Posted June 5 If he did, one of them would surely be an iron cross. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya Bezzer! Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 My grandfather was literally one of the first in combat on D-Day. He was an airman and they attacked German gun positions at Mont Fleury that over looked Gold Beach before the invasion.. However the concrete casemates were so thick they didn't do much damage despite scoring direct hits. Later in the day one guy with a Sten gun captured the batteries. My grandfather also flew a second mission on D-Day attacking the German airfield. at Chateaudun. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar_Army Posted June 5 Author Share Posted June 5 (edited) My dad was had just turned 16 when the war ended. He was lucky he missed it. Joined up after it when old enough into the Cameron Highlanders. I did stuff for the BBC years ago, document stories, it was called The People's War. Covered those who fought as well as those back home from landgirls to refugees. Amazing yet humbling at the same time. Yet never once did I ask what his, my mother's or grandmother's experiences of the war...they never talked about it and they never even had to fight!!! Edited June 5 by Sugar_Army 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 21 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: Has anyone seen Captain Tom's daughter? She's busy updating her website. GraspingCow@newgrift.com 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Everyone had a part to play. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWL Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 This is my grandfather's WW2 service record. Note the entry date for North West Europe - 6/6/44! And then evacuated back out the next day. He was a Commando in the first wave onto Sword and was hit in lower legs by machine gun fire on the surf. He was one of the generation who never talked about his war after he got home but, looking back, I wish I had asked him and been able to put it down on paper. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 My maternal grandfather was in the D-Day landings. He died when I was a toddler so I never got to speak to him about it. My paternal grandfather spoke about it. He was injured in the invasion of Italy and was in hospital when D-Day happened. It haunted him all his life that his mates went into it without him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 10 hours ago, tamthebam said: and the men and women came home from the war, saw what needed doing after living through both the Depression and the War, and voted in a Socialist government instead of Churchill. I read somewhere that during the war, it was a National Unity Government, where Churchill played the Admiral who conducted the war while it was more the Labour Party that played Captain, steadying the ship, ensuring everyone was clothed and fed. After the War, the Labour Party was elected to continue doing what it was already doing while Churchill's role as Admiral was no longer required. It was also noted that while Churchill had always despised the Nazis (seeing them as a threat to the Empire) the same could not be said for a lot of his colleagues in the Tory Party. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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