Utah. Omaha. Gold. Juno. Sword.

How times have changed. Seventy-one years ago, @ 6:30 am (Local time) Operation Overlord began.  The largest seaborne invasion in the history of the world.

(USMC receiving Holy Communion, Normandy, France, 1944)

And thirty years ago yesterday was Feris Buler's day off.

Go figure.


I forgot to add this morning, that  in 1944 the biggest problem was  all the Germans, on the other side of that ridge in the photo, waiting to kill all the  US soldiers.


In FBDO the big problem was he did not own his own car.