Art & Inspiration 6 June 1944

The men on the front lines needed the men in the rear to support us and send the supplies and equipment forward, yes that's the fact we could not have done it with out their support.
I for one are glad we had them. Frank 1st Cav

 

We should also remember that June 6th was another anniversary. The battle of Midway Island took place on June 4-6 1942. Where the United States defeated a Japanese Battle Group by sinking four carriers and a heavy cruiser. The Japanese were never able to recover from these losses and became a turning point for the war in the Pacific. It is amazing to me how this day in history has had a profound effect on the war and how our lives today could be very different had we not succeeded.

 

I thank my friend Del Carlino who served as an over the hump pilot flying supplies out of China, I thank those who landed on the beaches that day, I thank those who died . I also thank the millions of citizens who worked tirelessly to help them achieve victory.


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I always felt that I didn't have a thorough understanding of WW2, like what started it and where we entered and everything entailed and how we came to win it... I've always known there is so much to learn from history and I see how they are dumbing down schooling (seems like the dumbing down started not too long after I completed college about '75)... It's always kind of bugged me. So anyway I just recently started taking this free online class from Hillsdale College about the history of WW2. Hillsdale Colege is a private college in Michigan and in my opinion it's one of the few good Liberal Arts left in the country where they teach the whole story about history, they don't change it or twist it around like a lot of them nowadays... Anyway, this class is FREE and it's online and you can listen to the lectures whenever you have free time (as you go)... This class is unbelievable, It's so through... They teach when each new plane came in, each new ship and new piece of equipment... You guy's should check it out... I almost feel like I'm becoming an expert in WW2...

 

Thanks, Darryl. My Dad was involved, so I have always watched any show associated with WWII. He never talked much about it and Yes,I did ask. Nothing really about his involvement, but he did tell me about the English pubs and their horrible weather. Thanks again, Carp.

 

My father told me how a German soldier tried to shoot him as a kid because he was singing the Marseillaise with one of his buddy (he was born in 1936) and was actually saved by an other German soldier in Paris. My mother (born in 1939) told me how she remembers the Paris sky red from the fires. Both told me about the hunger and eating rotting meat bought from the butcher with the maggots already on it...
All I've experienced is in an expo seing a panzer coming toward me : the ground vibrating, the roar of the engine I could feel in my chest, that's the scariest thing I have seen. To think that soldiers or the resistance was fighting against that, sometimes with just handguns and molotov cocktails, they must have been desperate or have balls of steel or both.
Thanks to all who freed us.
The war was won but with the resurgence of the white supremacy ideology allover Europe and the US the fight is not over.

 

Yes, during WWII, my father served in a civilian capacity... first worked for Sylvania on Radar and then in New Mexico on a project there that was air transported to Japan.
We have much to thank this generation for as they served their Country on many levels when they were called.

 

It was a direct Deposit

 

I was 1 day old.

 

I was born 15 years after WWII ended....