History Pierce, Jim: D-Day, June 6, 1944. v1. 6 JUN 2010

[Joebill]

Para and Airborne landing behind the Normandy beaches.

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fixed the typo.

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[uRwhatUr]

Thank you, I enjoyed it very much.

[Joebill]

you're welcome.

[Fat Abe]

Originally Posted by Joebill

Para and Airborne landing behind the Normandy beaches.

I am the person who wrote it and I am the copyright holder, but I give permission for this work to be downloaded by anyone anywhere for free. I prefer you download it from here so I can see how many are interested in my work.

I hope you enjoy it.

This part of the D-day poem needs spell-checking:

Frogmen,
in small boats,
approach the shore,
they swim in,
silently, to take out,
the beach obstacles,
so the landing craft,
won't sink or explode on the way in,
weeks earlier,
they had been here,
silently,
testing the beaches,
taking samples,
to determine if tanks
could land, and not sink,
into the sands.

Nicely written. Movies dwell on the fear men had in their guts. But the professional soldier is focused on his mission. And that involves technical details, as you presented.

[Joebill]

As an ex-military guy, you fear all of the time you are in danger. I haven't been in combat. I have been through a hurricane at sea. I have watched more than one documentary where they interviewed military who had been in intense combat, they stated there is always fear. Anyone who says they feel no fear during combat is a liar.

I prefer to say they are mistaken.

[Joebill]

I don't think a spell checker would have flagged 'the' as misspelled. The word should be 'they', which I have corrected, removed old file, and uploaded the file with the correct word.