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Airborne June 1944
Thank you Kev. I have been remembering my own family's WW2 service. My Uncle Jack (younger brother to my father) was an RAF engineer and became a POW in Changi 1942 to 1945. Jack survived working on the infamous Burma railway and as a very young child I remember his tales of strife.
My married father volunteered as RAF pilot November 1939 to 1945. I too have his service records from MOD but his log books, diaries and photographs etc went astray in 1973 (long story). He was a staff pilot on 6 June 1944 dropping "window" in the Channel to confuse/mislead the German radars.
Before then, he served with 70 Squadron in North Africa and I have copies of the 1941/42 official diary forms 540 and 541 showing all the missions he flew, including the names of the crew flying his Wellington 1C number Z8787 with the squadron designation "J". While dad was away my mother drove an ambulance during the London blitz. Then dad came home and I was born 9 months later!
Last night's broadcast from Bayeux with 4,100+ lit graves was very moving.
Clive
6th June 1944
Today is the 80th anniversary of the D Day landings in Normandy and my late father was amongst the many thousands of allied troops who went ashore that morning. Some years ago I obtained his war service records from the Ministry of Defence and I hope that...
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing the story of your Father and his service during WW2. Incredible courage displayed by many and especially on this day 80 years ago. I am actually in Normandy, in a small town by Juno Beach today and have been here all week visiting many ...
What a great post!
On behalf of your father and of his ilk who fought bravely, lost their lives or seen the horrors of war and continued to create a happy and prosperous land for their children, I’d like to say I acknowledge that we are living this peaceful life thanks to t...
He was part of the greatest generation.
We are all forever indebted to all who fought against the tyranny of that time. Thank you!
Airborne June 1944
Thank you Kev. I have been remembering my own family's WW2 service. My Uncle Jack (younger brother to my father) was an RAF engineer and became a POW in Changi 1942 to 1945. Jack survived working on the infamous Burma railway and as a very young child I r...
Thank you Clive for your own family memories.
Your uncle and your father were very lucky to survive but thankfully they did. Brave men both of them, your mother too. My mother worked throughout the war working at the AVRO factory near Leeds making Lancaster and Anson bombers. What a generation they w...
Hello Clive!! Thank you so much for sharing these …
… memories from your family . Let’s honor these Brave men and women today and always and never forget their sacrifices. Best cordial regards Abel
Wonderful story and very poignant …
Thank you for posting and sharing this personal story with us. My own family members served during the first and second World Wars, one landed in France on D Day.
Interesting to know about your family participation…
… both Wars and D Day!! Let’s honor them today and always my dear friend! Best cordial regards Abel
A true story told.
Very interesting, part of the history and it was just like what I saw in one of the well directed war movies. Thanks for sharing.
Hello Kev! I felt deeply touched reading your post. Your Dad was…
… a true Hero and Brave man. You must be very proud! I thank you so much for sharing his record. I visited a few of the landing beaches in France some years ago and felt a deep emotion imagining what had happened in those places on that June 6. So many so...
Abel, thank you very much for your lovely comments.
I was very pleased to pay my personal tribute to all those men on that day through my father’s Service details. Regards Kev.
They were heroes . . .
. . . all. Angelos Chatas was a USN frogman at Omaha Beach on June 6th, 1944. I had the privilege of knowing him many years ago. There's a stele commemorating him and his teammates near Ste. Marie du Mont. Twenty three years after D-Day he was my Dad's bo...
Thank you for those pictures.
What a generation of men and women they were! Regards Kev.