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Originally Posted by WILMASBOYL78
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the official end to the war in Europe. It was certainly a time for celebration for countries tired of years of death and destruction...though for most the agony continued for many years as the rebuilding process took place.
The man in the photo is a neighbor of mine...he was a Navy gunner on a landing craft at Omaha Beach, wounded that day by German machine gun fire. I think he is about 93 years old now...the gal next to him is his wife of 70 years!
https://www.militarytimes.com/off-du...und-the-world/
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Congrats to him and all the other heroes of WW2. If he's 93 now that would make him born in 1926 or 27 so he'd be among the youngest of the WW2 veterans that didn't lie about their ages when they served. Only about 3 days earlier, Canadian troops had just run the last of the German occupiers out of Netherlands and a massive food infusion was underway as many Dutch people were starving.
My father survived a plane crash in the North Sea while serving in the RCAF in England. Of course if he had not, I wouldn't be typing this.
