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| Subject: | Brits on Omaha |  |
| Date: | Jan 7, 2008 |
| From: | Dave Williams | |
Gents,
Stumbled across this on the BBC "Peoples War" website, which is a repository of veterans WW2 reminiscences.
Firstly, I hadn't realised just how many Royal Navy personnel were involved, and secondly, I had read somewhere that story about RN Coxwains being "forced in at gunpoint" closer to the beach. This turns out to be false - put about to their eternal shame seemingly by Mssrs Marshall and Ambrose. Given the high praise given by both Brits and Yanks to one another in the piece, it beggars belief why some historians on both sides of the Atlantic chose to turn the conflict into some sort of inter-Allied contest.
"As Lieutenant Ray Nance, a veteran of and second in command of A Company of 116th Infantry Regiment put it 'We were with the British. They were the best."
And from Jimmy Green, RN: "Omaha deserves a place in American history. Those who died bravely at Omaha deserve to have their death recorded accurately. We who survived owe it to them. We owe it to those who served in World War Two to remember their stories, like mine, and we owe it to them to remember them accurately, as they actually happened"
Worth a read -- very moving stuff.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/68/a1929468.shtml |
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