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Omaha Steve

(99,475 posts) Sun Jun 22, 2014, 04:26 PM Jun 2014

Since we have been on the subject, a photo of the D-Day landing you might not have ever seen (update

https://www.facebook.com/dosomething/photos/a.67150811751.85843.7630216751/10152135698586752/?type=1&fref=nf

Here's a Normandy Beach landing photo they don't show you in textbooks. Brave women of the Red Cross arriving in 1944 to help the injured troops.

UPDATE: the photo is not Normandy, the mountainous background certainly is not any beach in the Cotentin peninsula. I would guess it was Italy or even southern France, the later landings in August.

But that doesn't take away from the job the nurses did in the war.

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Since we have been on the subject, a photo of the D-Day landing you might not have ever seen (update (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jun 2014 OP

Cool picture thanks for sharing, kick! Agschmid Jun 2014 #1

This happened after the assault was finished thelordofhell Jun 2014 #2

K&R Most wonderful! Thanks. nt tea and oranges Jun 2014 #3

And let's remember the WACs including my aunt who was so proud of her service JDPriestly Jun 2014 #4

Agschmid

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1. Cool picture thanks for sharing, kick!

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Sun Jun 22, 2014, 04:29 PM

Jun 2014

thelordofhell

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2. This happened after the assault was finished

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Sun Jun 22, 2014, 04:45 PM

Jun 2014

Only 1 woman was there DURING the assault.............Martha Gellhorn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn

tea and oranges

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3. K&R Most wonderful! Thanks. nt

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Sun Jun 22, 2014, 04:46 PM

Jun 2014

JDPriestly

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4. And let's remember the WACs including my aunt who was so proud of her service

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Sun Jun 22, 2014, 06:43 PM

Jun 2014

during WWII. My aunt and other WACs who worked with her did not land on Normandy, but their talents also made the victory possible. That was especially true of the women who helped to solve and decipher coded messages.

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