D-day June 6, 1944

[mn90403]

Let us not forget this day.  My step-dad landed on Normandy after his LST was sunk from under him.  He was an 'old' 24 year old at the time.  Imagine all the teens who landed and came back to make this country great.  

Please share a personal or family story if you have one.

 

[Joe D.]

    My Grandfather was in one of the 101st Airborne misdrops! But still made it home in one piece! One of his brothers arrived on the sixth day! Another was with Patton's tanks elsewhere with the distraction force! My Grandmother had seven brothers in the war! Don't know how many made it home! Those that did, didn't talk about it much after getting home!  I'm sure most of that was due to the survivors guilt they felt, for all of their friends and brothers that are still buried there today!😔🙏🇺🇸

[mn90403]

This does 'tie in' to metal detecting as we know all over the Southwest because of the training areas for Patton's Army.  Every time I go out in the Mojave/Mohave Desert I find training bullets from that period.

Here is a memorial to Patton's Army:

https://generalpattonmuseum.com/exhibits/desert-training-center/

http://generalpattonmuseum.com/

And here might be some research for future metal detecting of artifacts.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/pattonmojave.htm

[geof_junk]

I like the ½Ton jeep for prospecting.

[GotAU?]

On 6/6/2021 at 3:40 PM, mn90403 said:

This does 'tie in' to metal detecting as we know all over the Southwest because of the training areas for Patton's Army.  Every time I go out in the Mojave/Mohave Desert I find training bullets from that period.

Here is a memorial to Patton's Army:

https://generalpattonmuseum.com/exhibits/desert-training-center/

http://generalpattonmuseum.com/

And here might be some research for future metal detecting of artifacts.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/pattonmojave.htm

Just a friendly reminder to anyone who wants to go there- It’s a really neat area where you can still see Sherman tank tracks and rows upon rows of neatly aligned rocks marking where roads and camps were set up 80 years ago, and there are many cool other things to see left over from that era from our nation’s history. I know it well as I worked alongside of an archaeological survey in that area for several months.

It’s a land worth visiting and exploring, but people wanting to go there need to know that metal detecting, disturbing of and collection of any historic artifacts is prohibited within Patton’s and other related sites and camps at the Desert Training Center on both National Park and BLM managed lands of the DTC. The area is part of the Mojave National Preserve, and has been designated recently as a nationally significant historic site.  

Honor their service by protecting their memory for future generations.

https://www.deserttrainingcenter.com