Many thanks Gill, Stan and you men. The nice thing about this board is you don't have to explain to people what was "D-Day," where was Bastogne, where was Anzio, where was the Frozen Chosen, what was Khe Sanh. In fact, I've written a Cold War Dictionary, 1946-1991 about 80 pages long, because the young don't remember. Every war has its own language; the Cold War had one.
Here is the annual poster to my father. Jack (my twin) and I were 12 days old when he was killed.
Here is Jack's account in a Special Forces Association magazine about the D-Day pathfinders which also goes into the drop of the 508'th Parachute Infantry on 6 June 44, to the west of the Merderet River. Ste. Mere Eglise and the two American beaches Omaha and Utah were east of the river where the Hedgerows were the smallest). The 508th were scattered everywhere.
http://specialforces78.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/0417-Sentinel-News.pdfI walked that battlefield about 10 years ago and you can't believe how difficult essentially flat terrain could be when broken up by 15' walls of the Hedgerows every 30 yards.
