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bryang wrote:Jim,

My parents lived in Galveston during WWII. My dad was stationed at the Galveston Army Airfield. I was told stories about ration books that they had to use to buy anything. They told about the black outs and when they fired the 12-foot guns along the sea wall that it shook the house, sometimes the dishes would fall out of the cabinets. I don't know what caliber they were all I could find out was they were 12-foot guns. I assume that means the barrels were 12ft. long. I am sure someone on the forum will know.

I ran across a very good Texas in WWII Brochure that has a lot of good information on WWII and the role Texas played in the war with each city and base listed if anyone is interested.
Thanks, for another great post.

-geo

"WarHawk-AVG
12" guns..but they could have been 12 feet long!

Battery Wade Hampton
Near 39th and Seawall Blvd today

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seamusTX wrote:1944 - D-Day. About 10,000 Allied troops laid down their lives in the invasion.



- Jim

bryang wrote:Jim,

...I ran across a very good Texas in WWII Brochure that has a lot of good information on WWII and the role Texas played in the war with each city and base listed if anyone is interested.
...-geo

seamusTX wrote:1944 - D-Day. About 10,000 Allied troops laid down their lives in the invasion.

- Jim

D-Day
June 6, 1944, the US and our allies invaded Europe through France, a country that had not attacked us, to get at Germany, another country that didn’t attack us and only declared war because we went to war with their ally, Japan, after firing on their planes over Pearl Harbor, long after cutting off economic materials to them through an embargo. Germany was in much the same situation as the Palestinians today, fighting the Jews. In the process of our invasion and aggressive war against Germany, hundreds of thousands of innocent French, Belgian, Dutch and German civilians were killed by us, including thousands of children. And we interfered with Germany’s sovereign right to deal with its citizens internally, just as we more recently did with Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Neither Saddam’s treatment of the Kurds and Shi’a, not Adolf’s treatment of Jews, Gays, Gypsies, Communists, Christian agitators and others he determined were undesirable were any of our business. Nor is it our business to spread our culture and political system to countries like Japan, German and Iraq against the wishes of their government. Unfortunately for Germany, they did not have the allies they would have in today’s UN, American media and leftist Americans to rally support for their side against Amerika. If they had, the National Socialist Workers Party and state capitalism might still be efficiently running the Third Reich.

All honor and eternal remembrance to our troops and those of our allies who, at the cost of their lives and unaware of the blessings of multiculturalism, put down those rabid tyrannies. Let us continue to defend the values they died for, regardless of the cost to us, and of the leftist allies of tyranny at home.

Grammy wrote: In 1988 I participated in a reenactment of the D-day invasion when I was stationed in Vicenza, Italy. We joined aircraft coming from Ft. Bragg and jumped in on the various drop zones around French counrtyside. ...