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  • DubiousDan

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    Allied gunners are pictured wading ashore at Colleville sur Mer in Normandy as reinforcements following the D-Day landings.
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    Members of 12th Parachute Battalion, 5th Parachute Brigade, 6th Airborne Division, are pictured on June 10, 1944, enjoying a cup of tea having spent three days fighting their way out from behind enemy lines
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    Members of an American landing party drag men to shore after their landing craft was sunk by Nazi shelling off the coast of France on D-Day. The survivors reached Utah Beach, near Cherbourg, using a lift raft.
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    Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Wolverton and his men check their equipment before boarding their plane in Exeter, Devon on June 5, 1944 ahead of their D-Day parachute drop behind enemy lines. Robert Wolverton was killed by German machine gun fire in an orchard outside Saint-Come-du-Mont, Normandy, France a day later
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    British paratroops of the 1st Airlanding Reconnaissance Squadron are pictured falling to the ground and gathering their parachutes on September 17, 1944 in Arnhem, Holland as Allied troops continued to battle for a foothold on mainland Europe
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    A woman carries a jug as American soldiers join adults and children in a queue for water in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont in Normandy in 1944. The village, as depicted in TV series Band of Brothers, was the first to be liberated in Normandy during the D-Day invasion
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    Airborne troops smile from the door of their Horsa glider as they prepare to fly out as part of the second D-Day drop on the night of June 6, 1944. Writing on the side says 'Angels with dirty faces' along with a list of women's names
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    ...troops smile from the door of their Horsa glider...
    My uncle Hoyt was a glider pilot. The concept of flying into potential anti-aircraft fire with, basically, balsa wood to protect you always struck me as...uh...ballsy? I remember when he first told me what he did in the war and, as a 12-year-old with no filter on my mouth but some knowledge of WWII, I just blurted out "Uncle Hoyt! I didn't know you were crazy!" He just said "Everybody did what we had to do."

    As it turns out, he trained extensively to be a pilot, flew his first mission, got badly shot up (he carried several pieces of AA metal in his body until he died), and his war was over.

    I know Admiral Nimitz was talking about Iwo Jima, but I'm firmly convinced that "uncommon valor was a common virtue" was a good description of far more places and times than we can imagine today.
     
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