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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSince we have been on the subject, a photo of the D-Day landing you might not have ever seen (update
https://www.facebook.com/dosomething/photos/a.67150811751.85843.7630216751/10152135698586752/?type=1&fref=nf
Here's a Normandy Beach landing photo they don't show you in textbooks. Brave women of the Red Cross arriving in 1944 to help the injured troops.
UPDATE: the photo is not Normandy, the mountainous background certainly is not any beach in the Cotentin peninsula. I would guess it was Italy or even southern France, the later landings in August.
But that doesn't take away from the job the nurses did in the war.
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Since we have been on the subject, a photo of the D-Day landing you might not have ever seen (update (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Jun 2014
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And let's remember the WACs including my aunt who was so proud of her service
JDPriestly
Jun 2014
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Agschmid
(28,749 posts)1. Cool picture thanks for sharing, kick!
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)2. This happened after the assault was finished
Only 1 woman was there DURING the assault.............Martha Gellhorn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn
tea and oranges
(396 posts)3. K&R Most wonderful! Thanks. nt
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)4. And let's remember the WACs including my aunt who was so proud of her service
during WWII. My aunt and other WACs who worked with her did not land on Normandy, but their talents also made the victory possible. That was especially true of the women who helped to solve and decipher coded messages.