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TexLaProgressive

(12,698 posts)

1. One this day my Dad was on a ship in the choppy channel.

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Original post)

Fri Jun 6, 2025, 08:46 AM

Jun 2025

He was not prone to mal de mere, not so many of his fellows. June 7 or 8 he and those able loaded up their sea sick brothers in landing craft and laid their bodies out on the now secure beach.

He made it from Normandy to where the Allies meet the Soviets.

Here he is in Belgium I think.