Today is the 75th anniversary of the D-Day Landings. But you might not realise that the first American casualties of Operation Overlord actually occurred six weeks earlier, and not in France, but in England. Find out the full tragic story of the Battle of Lyme Bay.
Poster Comment:
I knew an old guy in Chicago who was in UDT. He told me he drove an LST up on a dock at Normandy.
When he was transferred to the South Pacific he said he got drunk on Vanilla Extract and would never eat vanilla ice cream. He is dead for quite some time. :-/