Americans about to fight on D-Day 1944. Sgt. Sandy Martin [top left] died on Omaha Beach.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Americans about to fight on D-Day 1944. Sgt. Sandy Martin [top left] died on Omaha Beach and is buried there. #NARA

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Brave American warriors poised to help save the world on D-Day, this week 1944: #NARA

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[VGNonly]

1. 80 years ago this week

The Battle of Midway was a major victory. The ability of Japan to wage war was crushed by the sinking of four carriers, they never recovered.

[WarGamer]

8. All because by a stroke of luck... US carriers weren't at Pearl on 12/7

[Peacetrain]

2. My Dad went in on D Day at Omaha Beach..

I think 3rd wave in.. He still had a hard time talking about it till the day he died.. I do not know what the name of the troop carriers were that brought them into shore, but the gate came down in the water not on the beach.. and he had to wade water that was tinged red with the blood of those floating.. Omaha was the beach of hell..

[Model35mech]

4. My dad went on shore near the end of June.

He entered not quite 2 weeks after the landing but he said, in a broken voice in his mid-70's, that there were teams still dealing with identifying and clearing the dead. And after days and days trying to clean up the carnage, it was still on-going.

Strange conjunction of events that... my lady's father was one a corpsmen tasked to move the wounded onto transport back to England. My father and her's may have come pretty close to crossing paths. What was probably the most significant time in our fathers lives is a shared imagination in our's.

But really, it's awfully hard to imagine a day where success looked so very much like failure... and required throwing thousands lives after thousands of lives at the terrible obstacle that blocked their futures.

[Peacetrain]

6. I guess Omaha was where all the carnage was

My Uncle went in on Utah Beach and it was nothing compared to Omaha I guess. That was what my Dad said.. He came off the back of the landing craft, stepped into the water and over bodies..I cannot even imagine.

Our Dads lived through hell..

[WarGamer]

9. Yeah the landings were never in doubt...

They were a decisive victory. Omaha was rough but was also never in doubt with the manpower and air/sea power advantage.

[VGNonly]

3. About 16 million US WWII

serviceman, approximately 240,000 are left.

[onethatcares]

5. my dad was a radio operator on a PBY/south pacific

one time he said, "the pilot said hang on we're going down there. and all I saw were dead sailors".

he never said another word about the war.

[mitch96]

7. And I bet everyone of them on D-Day were ANTIFA!!!! I know my old man was... nt

[Model35mech]

11. My father's parents were both immigrants from Germany and East Prussia

I expect my father didn't have any love lost for nazi's but he never talked about it. He spoke about 'the enemy', not nazis.

Late in life he opened up a little about things that had meaning for him, but I never really heard him say a bad thing about Germans.

[senseandsensibility]

10. A little late for Memorial Day

but we remember you boys (and girls). Thank you for saving democracy. We could use you today!