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My grandfather, KIA, Omaha beach in 1944.
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Way too many crosses there.
Thanks for sharing
Died fighting fascism.
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Did he succumb to his injuries the following day?
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Rest in peace.
Was there as Taps was played at sunset. Overpowering.
A Captain in the 116th?
Jesus. That was the first American infantry brigade to go ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day, and were chewed to pieces. Company A was reduced to just 18 men, out of 230. The entirety of 1st Battalion was down to 250, having started the day with just over 1,000.
You know why his is written in gold?
Different WWII campaign, same solemnity. Literary commemoration:
>“Twenty-seven acres of headstones fill the American military cemetery at Carthage, Tunisia. There are no obelisks, no tombs, no ostentatious monuments, just 2,841 bone-white marble markers, two feet high and arrayed in ranks as straight as gunshots. Only the chiseled names and dates of death suggest singularity. Four sets of brothers lie side by side. Some 240 stones are inscribed with thirteen of the saddest words in our language: “Here rests in honored glory a comrade in arms known but to God.” A long limestone wall contains the names of another 3,724 men still missing, and a benediction: “Into Thy hands, O Lord.”” ― Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943
i salute to this hero.
Laurence A. Madill, a brave man who gave his life so many others may live, a true hero.
What does the gold text indicate? I know it is significant but can’t remember.
Just curious, it says he died on the 7th. Did he die of wounds received on the 6th or was nobody declared dead on the 6th because everyone was real busy?
He paid the ultimate price to buy the freedom of others. Heroic.
Silence and respect.
First off: your grandfather paid a terrible price for stepping up and embarking on the most noble human mission. It took a lot of courage.
I saw a claim somewhere, once, that a single non-German (a coerced fighter from Ukraine or Poland) in an ideal position with a machine gun and a buttload of ammo was the author of a substantial portion (well over 10%, as I recall) of the casualties on Omaha. Has anyone else seen this?
My father was lucky to get off Omaha beach.
Bless your granfather for his sacrifice.