' D-DAY 70 YEARS AGO TODAY '

We have our freedom today because tens of thousands of troops lost there life getting it for us.
Respect & rip to them who have fallen.

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Heroes every one of them

Heroes every one of them

Hear hear pal.

Absolutely. My great uncle Bill was one of them that day.

I don't think being in the military automatically makes you a hero (as the press like to make out etc) - thinking like that makes me cringe.

However, what an operation D-Day was - all those men landing on the beaches and storming through Northern France, with many of their comrades getting cut down by coastal batteries and machine gun fire.

Now THEY were heroes. God bless them all.

Heroes every one of them

very true respect to them all

RIP Brave Soldiers, Britain is Free Today Thanks to everyone of you.

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R.I.P Hero's everyone of them

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Respect to one and all of those brave young men who gave so much for Britain to be free and great today , thoughts to the brave men who never made it home .

Respect should be paid to every single one of those guys and I shall be paying my respects at the D-Day Landings Parade in Newport on Sunday (as I always do)

We only have our (often taken for granted) freedoms today because of these people and their courageous colleagues and I salute them one and all

Im probably going to get stick for this but this is not meant as an insult, but todays soldiers through Help for Hero's get more help than Soldiers from WW2 and believe me when i say that there was an awful lot more Soldiers who needed our help than todays, i was born 20 yrs. after the End of WW2 and can remember some of the Old Soldiers/timers still going around carrying the Psychological battle scars of what they witnessed and the ones who battled the Japanese had even worse memories.

We owe these old timers { excuse the Pun } so much it cant even bear to be thought about and i know the Russian people have a lot of problems at the moment, but at least they celebrate there sacrifice's with a Big Parade every May, so they don't forget there fallen from WW2, What do the British government do, scrap our Celebrations in winning WW2 in the name of Political Correctness and replaces it with flower power and Diversity shame on them.

And i would like to finish this with a thought from my relative would died back last year and served in WW2, he said i cant believe the Scottish want independence as i remember a few scottish lads in my battalion who spilt blood for all of us in this country we battled and fought for each other not just Scotland, England, Wales or Ireland but the people of the UK and it will be a very sorry state of affairs if they go there own way.

P.s we could all be eating Sauerkraut if it wasn't for our Soldiers.

RIP To all the very very brave Soldiers that landed and did not come home from the beaches of Normandy, Britain is Free Today Thanks to everyone of you, God bless you all !!!

We must never forget the ultimate sacrifice those brave men and women from many countries made on D Day and throughout the war. We should ensure has parents that our children, grandchildren and their children Never Forget.

RIP To all who paid the ultimate sacrifice so we might have our freedom today I salute and thank each and everyone of you.

True heroes. The best generation. We will always be in their debt.

As an ex soldier I have nothing but respect for those guys who paid the ultimate sacrifice and indeed those that survived the terror of battle.

The word hero is used too much nowadays particularly with sports stars - but to the veterans of of WWII it is well deserved.

God Bless them all

23rd Regiment of Foot - The Royal Welch Fusiliers "Ich Dien"

PS: "Welch" is spelt correctly

we must never forget......

R.I.P to all and the families who were left behind.

To all the allied soldiers in all the theatres of the war

For our tomorrow they gave their today.... Thank you to those wonderful wonderful men who have the ultimate sacrifice so that we can be free....

We salute you & will never forget.


Well done to the BBC for the excellent coverage of this occasion.

This is an excellent book & its called One Fourteenth of an Elephant its a Memoir of Life and Death on the Burma-Thailand Railway about the sacrifices our boys went through.

My late great Uncle was at Dunkirk in May 1940 with the Royal Artillery and was rearguard when the evacuation was going on. That meant the guns were dug in and the job was to keep the German tanks at bay and stop them overrunning the beaches and capturing the remnants of the BEF ( British expeditionary Force) He told me their orders were to fight to the last round and man and then destroy the guns before heading back the beaches themselves. He told me out of his regiment of some 650 men around 65 of them got away and the rest were all either killed or captured. When he got to the beach he met another relative of ours who was in the infantry ( what a coincidence) and they both got back to England intact.

4 years later, my great Uncle had by then transferred to airborne forces and was a pathfinder (first in) and dropped into Normandy at night, their job was to secure the drop zones on the ground, for the main force that were coming in some 20-30 minutes later. I asked him did he encounter the enemy when he first landed and he told me they did. I then asked him what happened and he told me they could not take them prisoner and they had to keep the noise down, he told me they cut them and he instantly defended that by stating they did it to us and we did it to them. He was in action for weeks before his unit were withdrawn and was then subsequently injured in a training jump, which prevented him taking part in the disastrous Arnhem drop. He never got wounded in all the action he saw. He was a humble man, but a brave warrior! He passed away 7 years ago!
RIP Joe!

My late great Uncle was at Dunkirk in May 1940 with the Royal Artillery and was rearguard when the evacuation was going on. That meant the guns were dug in and the job was to keep the German tanks at bay and stop them overrunning the beaches and capturing the remnants of the BEF ( British expeditionary Force) He told me their orders were to fight to the last round and man and then destroy the guns before heading back the beaches themselves. He told me out of his regiment of some 650 men around 65 of them got away and the rest were all either killed or captured. When he got to the beach he met another relative of ours who was in the infantry ( what a coincidence) and they both got back to England intact.

4 years later, my great Uncle had by then transferred to airborne forces and was a pathfinder (first in) and dropped into Normandy at night, their job was to secure the drop zones on the ground, for the main force that were coming in some 20-30 minutes later. I asked him did he encounter the enemy when he first landed and he told me they did. I then asked him what happened and he told me they could not take them prisoner and they had to keep the noise down, he told me they cut them and he instantly defended that by stating they did it to us and we did it to them. He was in action for weeks before his unit were withdrawn and was then subsequently injured in a training jump, which prevented him taking part in the disastrous Arnhem drop. He never got wounded in all the action he saw. He was a humble man, but a brave warrior! He passed away 7 years ago!
RIP Joe!

Great story and I suspect a lot of people have their own stories to tell . These brave boys/men deserve our sincere thanks cos without their bravery and courage who knows what would've happened to Britain and it's people. God bless them all.

My late great Uncle was at Dunkirk in May 1940 with the Royal Artillery and was rearguard when the evacuation was going on. That meant the guns were dug in and the job was to keep the German tanks at bay and stop them overrunning the beaches and capturing the remnants of the BEF ( British expeditionary Force) He told me their orders were to fight to the last round and man and then destroy the guns before heading back the beaches themselves. He told me out of his regiment of some 650 men around 65 of them got away and the rest were all either killed or captured. When he got to the beach he met another relative of ours who was in the infantry ( what a coincidence) and they both got back to England intact.

4 years later, my great Uncle had by then transferred to airborne forces and was a pathfinder (first in) and dropped into Normandy at night, their job was to secure the drop zones on the ground, for the main force that were coming in some 20-30 minutes later. I asked him did he encounter the enemy when he first landed and he told me they did. I then asked him what happened and he told me they could not take them prisoner and they had to keep the noise down, he told me they cut them and he instantly defended that by stating they did it to us and we did it to them. He was in action for weeks before his unit were withdrawn and was then subsequently injured in a training jump, which prevented him taking part in the disastrous Arnhem drop. He never got wounded in all the action he saw. He was a humble man, but a brave warrior! He passed away 7 years ago!
RIP Joe!

Touching story gaz... rip to all

My late great Uncle was at Dunkirk in May 1940 with the Royal Artillery and was rearguard when the evacuation was going on. That meant the guns were dug in and the job was to keep the German tanks at bay and stop them overrunning the beaches and capturing the remnants of the BEF ( British expeditionary Force) He told me their orders were to fight to the last round and man and then destroy the guns before heading back the beaches themselves. He told me out of his regiment of some 650 men around 65 of them got away and the rest were all either killed or captured. When he got to the beach he met another relative of ours who was in the infantry ( what a coincidence) and they both got back to England intact.

4 years later, my great Uncle had by then transferred to airborne forces and was a pathfinder (first in) and dropped into Normandy at night, their job was to secure the drop zones on the ground, for the main force that were coming in some 20-30 minutes later. I asked him did he encounter the enemy when he first landed and he told me they did. I then asked him what happened and he told me they could not take them prisoner and they had to keep the noise down, he told me they cut them and he instantly defended that by stating they did it to us and we did it to them. He was in action for weeks before his unit were withdrawn and was then subsequently injured in a training jump, which prevented him taking part in the disastrous Arnhem drop. He never got wounded in all the action he saw. He was a humble man, but a brave warrior! He passed away 7 years ago!
RIP Joe!

lovely gaz.you must be very proud,thank god we had these men and the many brave men and women since to keep us free.godbless all british service personal.x