This is one of the best interviews! What an honorable man! I hope I'm surrounded by veterans when I get to Heaven. I want to tell them how much I love them and appreciate them.
Thank you for your service sir. I’m a young man who aspires to become a Marine, and it is the veterans of the past that continue to inspire me daily. Much gratitude to this content creator ~Future U.S Marine Marcus Delk of KFHS ⚓️🌎🦅
My grandfather also landed in the 3rd wave on Omaha beach with the 7th Naval beach battalion at the same time this gentleman did. He was a radio operator (not sure what exact rank/description that would be) who relayed messages back to the ships. He said that their landing craft got hung up on some underwater obstruction off shore and the driver had to stop there and drop the ramp in water that was over their heads. My grandfather jumped in with his heavy radio gear that dragged him to the bottom and he had to wriggle free of it and swim to shore. Later they hooked him up with a new radio set so he could do his job. He also said that every time he'd transmit he'd have to leave pretty quickly because the Germans would use radio direction finders to zero in and start lobbing shells at that location. Not sure on the details of that because he didn't talk about it much and he died in the 90s when I was younger.
@MakingHistoryProject yeah I seen where you had a 3 or 4 year gap between uploading videos im glad you started uploading again because these all seem to be new interviews I've never seen thank you again
Yes, I had two uncles that was signal second and third class one of them got captured in the Philippines starting the war I never did know what a signal man did thank you sir for the information. My uncle made it through the war thank you served in the Korean and the Vietnam too. He stayed on the Roshan the rest of his life. They said he fell off a ship 1975 he was a merchant, marine till the day he died
RE: Did the Army Air Force bomb the beach. My father, Col. F.J. Henggeler of the 388th Bomb Group, was deputy lead of the 1,300 or so heavy bombers on D-Day. He flew in a special radar-equipped plane called a Mickey plane. The demarcation between beach & water that showed up on their screen was like BLACK & WHITE he said. They dropped exactly at that point. I've always wondered about the effect of time on the changing depth of the level of water at different points along the coast. I believe that the planes had fanned out going in in waves with mickey planes spread out among the groups. I believe they would have dropped on the call from the mickey lead planes in their group. The 388th made two more drops that day, going further inland each time. D-Day was a killing field on 6 Jun 1944, but over the whole length of the war the death rate of servicemen was the highest of any group, save that of the German U-boat sailors.
This is one of the best interviews! What an honorable man! I hope I'm surrounded by veterans when I get to Heaven. I want to tell them how much I love them and appreciate them.
Thank you for watching and your kind comment.
Thank you for your service sir. I’m a young man who aspires to become a Marine, and it is the veterans of the past that continue to inspire me daily.
Much gratitude to this content creator
~Future U.S Marine Marcus Delk of KFHS ⚓️🌎🦅
Thank you for your comment. Wish you all the best with the Marines!
@@MakingHistoryProject Thank you for making such great quality videos. What you do truly preserves the priceless stories of heroes.
This guys memory is outstanding for him to be in his 90’s . The interviewer needs to sharpen his skills for sure .
My grandfather also landed in the 3rd wave on Omaha beach with the 7th Naval beach battalion at the same time this gentleman did. He was a radio operator (not sure what exact rank/description that would be) who relayed messages back to the ships. He said that their landing craft got hung up on some underwater obstruction off shore and the driver had to stop there and drop the ramp in water that was over their heads. My grandfather jumped in with his heavy radio gear that dragged him to the bottom and he had to wriggle free of it and swim to shore. Later they hooked him up with a new radio set so he could do his job. He also said that every time he'd transmit he'd have to leave pretty quickly because the Germans would use radio direction finders to zero in and start lobbing shells at that location. Not sure on the details of that because he didn't talk about it much and he died in the 90s when I was younger.
Thank you for watching and sharing your grandfather's story
Idk how there's not more views and comments on these videos God bless our soldiers
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@MakingHistoryProject yeah I seen where you had a 3 or 4 year gap between uploading videos im glad you started uploading again because these all seem to be new interviews I've never seen thank you again
Yes, there is a regular schedule now for uploading. Our intern team is doing an excellent job editing all past interviews.
@@MakingHistoryProject awesome im excited to see what's next because what yall are doing is so important
Yes, I had two uncles that was signal second and third class one of them got captured in the Philippines starting the war I never did know what a signal man did thank you sir for the information. My uncle made it through the war thank you served in the Korean and the Vietnam too. He stayed on the Roshan the rest of his life. They said he fell off a ship 1975 he was a merchant, marine till the day he died
Thank you for watching and your comments.
RE: Did the Army Air Force bomb the beach.
My father, Col. F.J. Henggeler of the 388th Bomb Group, was deputy lead of the 1,300 or so heavy bombers on D-Day. He flew in a special radar-equipped plane called a Mickey plane. The demarcation between beach & water that showed up on their screen was like BLACK & WHITE he said. They dropped exactly at that point.
I've always wondered about the effect of time on the changing depth of the level of water at different points along the coast. I believe that the planes had fanned out going in in waves with mickey planes spread out among the groups. I believe they would have dropped on the call from the mickey lead planes in their group.
The 388th made two more drops that day, going further inland each time.
D-Day was a killing field on 6 Jun 1944, but over the whole length of the war the death rate of servicemen was the highest of any group, save that of the German U-boat sailors.
Thank you for watching and your added context.
The interviewer hasen't got a clue😂
Ive had enough of this interviewer. Rude
Not sure I understand. Kindly explain how the interviewer was rude.
Maybe not polished yet but not rude to my ear.
How? I don't understand either.