D-Day Mystery Solved 67 Years Later


Posted by frankieb (Diary)

Monday, December 5th at 10:42AM EST

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My husband, Vincent E. Baker, landed on Omaha Beach on D-day and fought as a forward artillery observer through VE-Day. Even then he didn’t get to come home because he was appointed military mayor of Reid, Austria.

Anyway, here’s a link to a story about a mystery that I played a very small part in solving. Enjoy!

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/11/24/3286566/unexpected-phone-call-pleases.html

If you’d like to see a photo of the craft, you can find it at www.FranBaker.com on the Links page.


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Lucas Black Monday, December 5th at 11:25AM EST (link)

That’s a neat story. My Dad was supposed to be in D-Day, but he wanted to get into action earlier, so he transferred to a unit that landed in Naples and fought in Italy for the most part. I loved hearing his war stories growing up.

 

just did a quick search

streiff (Diary) Monday, December 5th at 3:29PM EST (link)

and there are several pictures of LCT-29 out there on Google images.

“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”

 

Thanks for sharing that story, frankieb!

Steve Maley (Diary) Tuesday, December 6th at 7:31AM EST (link)

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The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.

 

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