"Parachute infantry uniforms Including advice for the collector.
"This page offers examples of unquestionably original uniforms acquired directly from vets or their families BEFORE the insane prices started-up. My purpose in posting these is to inform collectors of what real stuff looks like (see also Insignia, Equipment, and Souvenirs pages), not to gloat about what I've got." Mark Bando.
" Dec, 2011 Update: Normandy, 1944; then and now photos "Our previous emphases (below) on Omaha Beach gave short shrift to the other landing sites. This should do a bit to fill in some of those gaps with photos. Click on some of the WW2 photos of the site, "Men of D-Day" and you will also see that location as it is today. Don't you love stuff like that?" TD"
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D-Day; Omaha Beach then and now photographs (Updated, 12/3/2011)
"Dec, 2011 Update: Normandy, 1944; then and now photos "Our previous emphases (below) on Omaha Beach gave short shrift to the other landing sites. This should do a bit to fill in some of those gaps with photos. Click on some of the WW2 photos of the site, "Men of D-Day" and you will also see that location as it is today. Don't you love stuff like that?" TD
D-Day Monday UPDATED with more links
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This Haunting Tribute To World War II’s Fallen Will Give You Goosebumps
RIP Dick Winters
" Moonbattery "Major Dick Winters, the WWII hero who inspired the TV series Band of Brothers, died Saturday of Parkinson disease complications at age 92."'
The ruins of Normandy: Unpublished color photos taken in northern France in 1944 show the devastating impact of the Allied Force's battle to defeat the Nazis in World War 2
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