Operation Overlord

As I tap this post out on my laptop seventy-five years ago today Army Airborne Pathfinders were parachuting into Normandy France preparing to guide the larger air armada of glider and parachute forces in advance of the seaborne invasion that would follow at first light.

My pop landed at Utah Beach shortly following the initial assault as an infantry replacement. 

The missus and I have been to France three times in the last seven years and here are a couple of photos taken from a visit to Utah Beach. 

 

Spooky to walk these same locations...