Awaiting the Enemy 1944
Canon EOS 350D - 18.0mm - f9.0 - 1/200sec - ISO 200
Blick auf Omaha Beach, amerikanischer Landungsabschnitt am D-Day 1944.
An dem kleinen Küstenabschnitt starben über 4000 amerikanische und 700 deutsche Soldaten.
OLD No13 15/01/2014 14:20
Well done ,Stars sprangled banner - These Colors Don´t Run
In 2014, the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy will be commemorated by many Allied Heads of State and hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world from June through till the end of August.The majority of Allied troops who landed on the D-Day beaches were from the United Kingdom, Canada and the USA. Allied Troops from many other countries participated in D-Day June 6,1944 and the Battle of Normandy, in all the different armed services: Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Poland.Over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or went missing during the Battle of Normandy.
We will remember them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJMtJtrsnE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0_Y7aBWV5Q
Best regards
Bernie