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82 years ago today, American troops find their places in a landing craft bound for the D-Day invasion in Normandy. 🪖
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82 years ago today, a 1st Infantry Division soldier reads his Bible onboard his LCI en route to Omaha Beach in Normandy door the D-Day Invasion. 🪖
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82 years ago today, American paratroopers fix their static lines for the jump before dawn over Normandy. 🪂
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82 years ago today, Landing craft approach Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. 🪖
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82 years ago today, the great Robert Capa captures American infantrymen struggling through the surf on Omaha Beach amid hedgehog and ramp obstacles placed by the Germans. 🪖
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82 years ago today, soldiers from 1st Infantry Division’s 16th Infantry Regiment wade ashore on Omaha Beach. 🇺🇸
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82 years ago today, Soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division communications section work from their foxhole on Utah Beach during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. 🪖
One Soldier is hand-cranking a generator to power their radio receiver-transmitter. 📻
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Had the Germans known that 1st Sgt. Jake McNiece of the 101st Airborne was nicknamed “McNasty” they would have waved the white flag on D-Day. 🇺🇸
-4 combat jumps 🪂
-4 Bronze Stars 🎖
-2 Purple Hearts 💜
- Legion of Honor 🇫🇷
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82 years ago today, a medic with the 1st Infantry Division moves along a narrow strip of Omaha Beach administering medical aid to men wounded on D-Day. 🪖
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“There are two kinds of soldiers on this beach—those who are dead and those who are going to die! So let’s get the hell off this damned beach!”
82 years ago today, a 4th Medical Battalion Corpsman administers a saline drip to a fellow medic of the 4th Infantry Division wounded on Utah Beach. 🪖
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After making their first combat jump 82 years ago today, paratroopers Forrest Guth and Floyd Talbert of Easy Company pose for a photo with some locals in Normandy, France.
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82 years ago today, soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division land on Utah Beach. 🇺🇸
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The flag flown on DDay by USS LST-393, 82 years ago today. 🇺🇸
She made 30 round trips to Omaha Beach, bringing varied equipment and supplies to France & returning with wounded soldiers as well as 1000s of German prisoners. ⚓️
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82 years ago today, Soldiers of the 90th Infantry Division during the crossing to Utah Beach on the crammed LCI(L)-326, manned by the US Coast Guard. 🪖
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There’s nothing more reassuring than a General who hits the beaches of Normandy with his men in the 1st wave and calmly declares:
“We'll start the war from right here!" 🪖
82 years ago today, E Co. 5th Rangers on board a landing craft bound for the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach. 🪖
Top row, L-R: 1SG SAndy Martin, JR (KIA D-Day) and TI5 Joseph J. Markowitz.
Bottom row: PFC Frank E. Lockwood and CPL John B. Loschiavo
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82 years ago today, soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division’s 16th Infantry Regiment storm the Easy Red Sector of Omaha Beach in Normandy.🪖
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82 years ago today, soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division seek shelter from German mortar and small-arms fire behind a hedgehog beach obstacle on Omaha Beach. 🪖
The helmet with the white arc worn by the man at far left indicates he is an army combat engineer.
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82 years ago today, Army Rangers ashore beneath the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc. 🪖
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82 years ago today, Bob Sales of the 29th Infantry Division landed in Normandy. When the ramp dropped, German machine gunners & a sniper cut down the 29 other men in Sales' landing craft before they could reach the beach.
He was the only one who survived. 🪖
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The USS Texas was an absolute beast during D-Day operations, firing 255 shells in 34 minutes as part of the 702-ship US-British flotilla at the Omaha Beach western fire support lane. ⚓️
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The fighting on DDay, 82 years ago today, was so intense that up to 4% of the sand on Omaha beach is now made up of shrapnel. 🪖
The shrapnel, broken down into tiny pieces, remains in the sand due to the hardness of the metal and its resistance to erosion. 🔬
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Paratrooper Forest Guth of Easy Company photographed in Normandy after making his first combat jump, 82 years ago today. 🪂
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82 years ago today, an LCM manned by the U.S. Coast Guard evacuates American casualties from the invasion beaches to a transport for treatment in the ship’s sick bay. ⚓️
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The first American soldier to step onto the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, Captain Leonard T. Schroeder of the 4th Infantry Division. 🍀
- Combat Infantry Badge 🪖
-Silver Star 🇺🇸
- Bronze Star 🎖
- Purple Heart 💜
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Wounded soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division take shelter under the cliffs at Colleville sur Mer. 🪖
Doesn’t get anymore heroic than this 🇺🇸
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82 years ago today, medics from the 5th & 6th Engineer Special Brigade help wounded soldiers as they reach Omaha Beach. 🪖
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