65 Years Ago This (PIC) Was Taken at the Beaches of Normandy

upload.wikimedia.org — I can't imagine the feeling leaving that boat and heading towards the beaches of Normandy. This is an excellent photograph that brings you about as close to the event as you can possibly get without a delorean/copy of Saving Private Ryan. Jun 6, 2009 View in Crawl 4

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garlicdeath Jun 7, 2009

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I had heard about that happening when Saving Private Ryan was released, mysedai. It was an intense scene and overall movie but that first scene, I couldn't imagine just how actually terrible it was.

garlicdeath Jun 7, 2009

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Haha, man that is such an awesome story. It does speak volumes of just how messed up your train of thought is at that point.

maybeez Jun 8, 2009

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At least he didn't go for "Shaving Ryan's Privates", which, in my opinion, would have been alot worse...

trinitynow Jun 9, 2009

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my grandfather fought in this battle....

thebigbad Jun 9, 2009

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In the history of humankind, there has never not been war. What would make you think with the earth's population going up every second that war will ever decrease? If anything, it is going to increase. I'm not being a pessimist, I'm just being a realist.

jaquierosillo Jun 9, 2009

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i'm agree... totally from the movie...

apokalypsenow Jun 10, 2009

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In case anyone is wondering, those balloons are Barrage Balloons, anti-aircraft weapons: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrage_balloon">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrage_balloon</a> Given how many of them there are there, it makes me think that this is a British landing site rather than an American one.

yngtimmy Jun 10, 2009

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The good old days...when the bad guys wore uniforms.

akairenn Jun 13, 2009

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Yeah, they do. Quite often better.Old coot in a monotone voice: And the Soviet Union had 23 million casualties.CoD, any Russian map: Crazy ass explosions, fire from every direction, and people dropping right and left.One of these things makes history 'real'. Hint, it's not the crusty professor.