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• An amazing find: An amatuer UK historian Gary Sterne finds a missing piece of D-Day history: the Maisy Battery

  Photo from The Armourer Magazine online, my guess is a very large caliber cannon would have been mounted for easy traverse This is fascinating… stories here and here describe an amateur historian from the UK finding a missing piece of D-Day history, the... Posted Jan 09 2008, 10:13 PM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: D-Day

• saluting the Greatest Generation: Captain Snowden, the Pernotto Brothers, and the 61st Medical Battalion

  Today is the holiday for Veteran’s Day, yesterday the official date, I am going to pay respects to men and women of the Greatest Generation, to a man who I never met, a family that produced five veterans, and the men of my dad’s unit. Writer Lynn Snowden... Posted Nov 12 2007, 02:17 PM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: WWII, Normany Beach, D-Day