I had an uncle that was in the Normandy invasion. After I returned from Viet Nam, he would tell me stories about the battles. Before Nam, his response was always that you had to be there to understand. I was always more than willing to provide the libation to hear his stories. He was in one of the Ranger units that scaled the sheer cliffs to knock out the big guns. The 155's that the Germans had already moved further up the coast. Our commanders did not tell the troops that the guns had been moved to further motivate them to get to the top of the cliffs. He was wounded in the invasion and again later in another battle. Some of his accounts of the battle were considerably different than those of the historians. Those men were true heroes.
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