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D-Day - thoughts, stories?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tumbleweed" data-source="post: 2727212" data-attributes="member: 72454"><p>First hand experience: The paper drives where everyone participated! People who couldn't walk to help gather, opened their front door and shoved newspapers, magazines, grocery bags on to the porch. The paper was picked up by someone for sure.</p><p></p><p>My Dad putting black electrical tape on the front headlights. About a square inch of light is all you had to see the road at night. The reason was on multiple occasions nazi subs lurked around army camps and airfields spying on Americans. Sometimes a small band of Nazis secretly came ashore at night. Many were caught due to civil army of armed citizens. Where did this happen? Mostly Florida gulf coast and the Carolinas.</p><p></p><p>The blue stars in the window on a banner which meant your child was in the armed forces. Red stars meant you lost your son or daughter. I remember every window had a banner of stars hanging in the front window.</p><p></p><p>Try to get a tire for the car was almost impossible. Old cans, frying pans anything with metal was collected for drives.</p><p></p><p>On Omaha Beach, the majority of nazi soldiers set up cross fires by Hitler Youth Organization. These kids were as young as twelve years old killing allied soldiers. They didn't aim, they didn't have to, they just fired and fired, killing thousands of young American soldiers. Trying to escape the fire, many soldiers slipped over the sides of their boats in the rough waters and immediately sunk due to the heavy packs on their back.</p><p></p><p>Sugar was rationed as well as gas and food. But they survived and everyone worked together, I mean everyone. Very few heros, all the true heros didn't come home.</p><p></p><p>When you hear, this is the greatest generation in the history of the United States, yes that is correct.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tumbleweed, post: 2727212, member: 72454"] First hand experience: The paper drives where everyone participated! People who couldn't walk to help gather, opened their front door and shoved newspapers, magazines, grocery bags on to the porch. The paper was picked up by someone for sure. My Dad putting black electrical tape on the front headlights. About a square inch of light is all you had to see the road at night. The reason was on multiple occasions nazi subs lurked around army camps and airfields spying on Americans. Sometimes a small band of Nazis secretly came ashore at night. Many were caught due to civil army of armed citizens. Where did this happen? Mostly Florida gulf coast and the Carolinas. The blue stars in the window on a banner which meant your child was in the armed forces. Red stars meant you lost your son or daughter. I remember every window had a banner of stars hanging in the front window. Try to get a tire for the car was almost impossible. Old cans, frying pans anything with metal was collected for drives. On Omaha Beach, the majority of nazi soldiers set up cross fires by Hitler Youth Organization. These kids were as young as twelve years old killing allied soldiers. They didn't aim, they didn't have to, they just fired and fired, killing thousands of young American soldiers. Trying to escape the fire, many soldiers slipped over the sides of their boats in the rough waters and immediately sunk due to the heavy packs on their back. Sugar was rationed as well as gas and food. But they survived and everyone worked together, I mean everyone. Very few heros, all the true heros didn't come home. When you hear, this is the greatest generation in the history of the United States, yes that is correct. [/QUOTE]
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