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appalachiablue

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8. No problem. My father never said much either, but I wished

Reply to StClone (Reply #7)

Wed Dec 16, 2020, 05:10 PM

Dec 2020

I had asked. Dad wasn't in the summer D-Day operation but came a bit later to England in early Dec. 1944. He trained there some and then shipped over to Normandy. He was a 1st lieut., Anti Aircraft Artillery, 7th Army.

I never knew he landed in Normandy until I listened to an audio tape he made in the mid 1980s, he died a year later, far too soon.

In summer 2003 I visited the Normandy Beaches and the American Museum there. I'd love to return, and to see England again but it's unlikely.

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