D-Day 6/6/44 Memorial

Never forget the sacrifices that made this country great!

Thank you!

Price

My son and I are really missing our annual trip to the Reading WWII weekend which would have been yesterday if not for Covid-19.   We really enjoy getting to talk to the vets from the Greatest Generation and hearing their stories and perspective on how their experiences help us deal with current events.   This year would have been a great learning experience for my son as he just turned 18 in March and graduated high school.   If he lived ~70 years ago he would most likely be preparing to go to war instead of college.   Really puts things in perspective which personally, I feel many of today's generation just don't comprehend and understand.

-Greg

In my neighborhood a short time ago - Canadian Pacific 6644 D-Day tribute locomotive. Lest we Forget...

Here is my military train from a few years ago. My father landed on Omaha beach with Patton’s 3rd army several weeks after the 6th of June. My train is a tribute to him.

JohnB

Here’s my dad(center) in England posing in front of glider for the invasion.He missed D day being in hospital with spinal meningitis. 
I always wondered how his crew made out on D Day he never talked about it.

My way of remember D-Day.

Dad fought with a parachute artillery regiment as part of the 82nd AB from North Africa on, including jumping into Normandy on D-Day.  By December, his unit had been transferred to the 101st, just in time to be trucked into Bastogne. . . .

MoPac Light Mike #1310 pulls a Main Train around the curve at Notch Junction.

I need to find some 1/48 75mm Pack Howitzers.

@paulp575 posted:

My way of remember D-Day.

 

Who made the boxcars? Thanks

@franktrain posted:

Who made the boxcars? Thanks

The box car is made by Lionel - part of their WWII collection. They have a series of these all with different pictures.

Here's a list of those I have (I think this is all - so far):

6-83779 - 75th Anniversary Pearl Harbor Boxcar
6-83783 - Rosie the Riveter Boxcar
6-83784 - Heavies and Little Friends Boxcar
6-83785 - Doolittle Raid Boxcar
6-83786 - D-Day Boxcar
6-83788 - Uncle Sam "Enlist Now" Boxcar
6-84666 - Battle for Guadalcanal Boxcar
6-84667 - Battle of the Bulge Boxcar
6-84668 - Silent Service Boxcar
1938210 - Kiss the War Goodbye Boxcar
1938220 - WWII Sherman Tank Boxcar
1938240 - WWII Liberty Ships Boxcar

My father, a Navy Sea Bee, missed D-day because he was in the South Pacific fighting the Japanese.  Here are some military trains running on the G&O.   NH Joe

@New Haven Joe posted:

My father, a Navy Sea Bee, missed D-day because he was in the South Pacific fighting the Japanese.  Here are some military trains running on the G&O.   NH Joe

 

Then he had his own invasions to experience.  Just over a week after Overlord went over the Normandy beaches, the US launched the first of the invasions of the Marianas, an operation that was in its own way more spectacular, as it was launched not across the English channel but across a thousand miles of hostile Pacific Ocean.  All honor to him and his fellows!