Subject: #1 Piston Fighter was British
From: (JonB)
Date: 7/6/03 9:06 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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We stood to on the 5th for D--Day. as did a few hundred other outfits..
It
was
scheduled for the 5th. You really know nothing do you?.


I know D-Day was June 6th. I'm sure you knew that at one time as well, but
sometime between 1944 and 2000 you came to "remember" D-Day as June 5th.

Art's right. It was intended to be the 5th. They embarked and then
they waited. On the 6th, they went. Every diary entry and letter home
written at the time would have had it down as the 5th (if any date at
all). It is only the 6th in retrospective news reports and history
books that overlook the delay.


Of course those of us that were there stood to on the 5th. Others never
noticed. (sigh)

Arthur Kramer
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http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer