My Uncle Joe went ashore on Utah Beach on D-Day.
My Uncle Johnny was transferred to General Stilwell’s baseball team in India and spent most of the war playing ball.
My Uncle Bob was a medic who served with Desmond Doss in the Pacific (and thought he was a prig). Then he served in Japan during the occupation.
My Great-uncle John, Lt. Col. John Christian, was blown up in Rangoon Harbor in Burma as the war closed. He had been the U.S. Army Liaison to Lord Mountbatten and was in Army Intelligence, as he was the top U.S. expert on Burma.
I haven’t forgotten.

I loved reading everyone’s memories, thanks for sharing.

God Bless our wonderful Sailors, Airmen and Solders
 

These people were truly the Greatest Generation!!! They did save the world and our generations!!!

How about the Fifth Army? They liberated Rome the day before, June 5, 1944. Or VT8, all but one died initiating the attack on the Japanese fleet June 5, 1942. Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground...or at sea.

Thank you for adding your family history of WW11. It is easy for us to only remember the big ceremonial days in the calendar and forget the thousands of people who gave their lives liberating the cities of Europe.

I had several uncles that were in WW11. We were lucky, all were able to come home. As a child Sunday dinner at Grandmas was full of their stories.