D-Day : 62nd Anniversary click
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Angoville
au Plain - 3 June 2006 Before the ceremony
Angoville
au Plain - 3 June 2006 Ceremony in honor of the two medics of the 501st PIR
: Robert E. Wright and Kenneth J. Moore
Jim
Blankenship presenting a plaque to Marie-T Lavieille in honor of her husband,
Claude Lavieille, founder of the French association 'Les
Fleurs de la Memoire', who died in october 2005
The first international reunion of Family & Friends 505 RCT occured this year at Ste Mere Eglise.
Airborne jump at La Fiere Meeting with Julius Eisner, D Co 505th PIR and D-Day pathfinder in stick #10
Airborne jump at La Fiere The weather was better this year without problems during the jump.
Airborne jump at La Fière Meeting with Marie-T Lavieille from the French association 'Les Fleurs de la Memoire'.
Our first day in Normandy. we visited Pointe du Hoc with Geoffrey Sneezum, a British veteran of the 12th Bn Devonshire Rgt.
Jack Schlegel and Chet Graham, 508th PIR in the square of Ste Mere Eglise.
L to R. Jim Blankenship, president of Family & friends 505 RCT and Jack Schlegel, 508th PIR, in great discussion.
Speaking in the streets of Ste Mere Eglise with U.S. troopers, the day before their jump at La Fiere.
A good steak during the BBQ party.
I was again invited this year to a BBQ party with friends reenactors of C/326 AEB.
Picauville - 5 June 2006 Dedication of the new Hall 'Tom Porcella' in the centre of the village.
Picauville - 5 June 2006 One of the engines of a C-47 which crashed during the night 5/6 June 1944 is now exposed near the monument to the 9th USAAF.
Omaha Beach - Wn62 The position is on the Map Omaha East. You can buy the map on the website.
Omaha Beach - Wn62 The position is on the Map Omaha East. You can buy the map on the website.
Thomas W. Porcella 508th PIR with his wife molly. Their two sons came also in Normandy this year.
Robert E. Wright / 501st PIR One of the two medics who attended 80 wounded in the church of Angoville au plain.
Amfreville - 7 June 2006 C-47 "Drag 'Em Oot" 42-100882 from the 87 TCS, dropped again, 62 years later, paratroopers on DZ 'T'.
Amfreville - 7 June 2006 U.S. flag flying in the blue sky of Normandy.
On DZ 'T' with reenactors of C/326 AEB... It seems they were misdropped :-)
Ralph K. Manley / 501st PIR with one of the men who jumped from the C-47 "Drag 'Em Oot"
D-Day Pathfinder Robert M Murphy and Emile Lacroix signing the new edition of his book "No Better Place to Die". This book is the definitive small unit account of the heroic stand by a small group of 82nd Airborne soldiers ordered to hold the Merderet River crossing and protect Utah Beach from Rommel's Panzers on D-Day.
Hey Bob, I saw your signature on the wall of the café at Utah Beach. Very well Done !
With Emile Lacroix at Sainte Mere Eglise during the meeting of Family and Friends 505 RCT.