Subject: Angels Eight - Normandy Air War Diary
From: "Keith Willshaw"
Date: 10/11/03 4:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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Subject: Angels Eight - Normandy Air War Diary
From: "Keith Willshaw"
Date: 10/10/03 2:17 PM Pacific

Art the book is about the Normandy campaign which includes
a 3 month period over the entire western european theatre


That is what I don't understand. We were awarded little pins called battle
stars to pin on out theatre (ETO) ribbons. We had battle stars for D-Day,
The
Po Valley, TheCentral Appennines,Central Europe, and the Bulge. I never
heard
of battles going on on all over europe being lumped together and all
called
Normandy. If that were the case we would have gotten one star for Normandy
and
saved all that other scrap metal. Right?


Thats pretty much what happened in the British and Commonwealth
forces , in fact they went further, my father went ashore on D-Day
and slogged his way up through Belgium and Holland ending up
around Hamburg for which he got the France and Germany Star
to add to his Italy and African Stars and Dunqerque medal

Keith



Interesting to hear how the Brits did it. Thanks. Is your dad still around. If
so give him my best. Where was he in Belgium? I was up in Florennes surrounded
by Brits. Maybe we met there.Who knows? (grin)

Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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