WWII Battlefield Return // Heroes Return To Normandy 74th D-DAY Anniversary

Heroes Return To Normandy: Video Highlight

June 1, 2018 the Best Defense Foundation took 8 WWII Veterans back to Normandy where they fought.

Dick Klein - 101st Airborne Division
Francis Turner - 17th Armored Engineer Battalion of the 2nd Armored Division
George Ciampa - 607th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company
Jack Myers - 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
Jack Foy - 347th Infantry Regiment, 87th Division
Boris Stern - 424th Infantry Regiment, 106th Division
George Smilanich - 67th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division
Clinton Riddle - 325 Glider Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division

While in Normandy, we visited the Brittany American Cemetery. It was a solemn time for all of us as we looked out at the sea of white crosses that represented so many heroes who lost their lives way too young. While we all stood in silence, Jack Foy began to speak. His words left us all speechless and so proud to be American. Watch the video to hear it!

Please enjoy watching their marvelous return back to France.

"Taking care of the ones who took care of us"

#DonnieEdwards is a former #NFL football player who has spent the last 22 years giving back to our military. He has done 9 #USO tours, visited many military bases and accompanied hundreds of WWII veterans and Vietnam veterans back to #battlefields

In April of 2006 Donnie Edwards brought WWII veterans back to their battlefields for the first time. Since that time he has accompanied hundreds of WWII veterans from the top of Mount Suribachi in Japan to the top of Eagles Nest in Germany. Donnie works tirelessly to fulfill the wishes and needs of our veterans and to give them the honor and respect they so readily deserve.

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#nineteen44 #normandy #normandie #seeyouonthebeach #june6 #battleofthebulge #tankdestroyers #worldwartwo #airborne #goldenlions

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[soldiersaint]

Thank you veterans. The peace my family has is because of you.

[tonkinz]

Sad our d day heroes are slowly getting extinct😢

[XDlosDominicans]

"Roy Talhelm 17 years old"
He was just a kid... man that's making me tear up

[retrokon]

They deserve the title of "The Greatest Generation." They fought the war to end all wars. God Bless them all.

[amethyst]

It doesn't matter iff Americans, Russians, Germans or any other soldier. These people where soldiers following their orders and died for their country! GOD BLESS THEM ALL!

[monngo]

“Were you a hero pappy? No, but I was in a company of heroes.” Wow, I felt that.

[davegregory]

i think that sums it up when a young girl says to her grandad, were you a hero. he replied, no but i was in the company of heros. These men gave the world freedom.

[jasoncox]

My grandfather was a part of this. They truly are the greatest generation. Respect 🫡

[kbkvkdm]

My grandfather served on D-Day, he didn't even make it to the beach, but I like to think he was a hero.

[ryancasey]

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." -George Patton

[vxenon]

01:45 Killed at 17-years-old storming the beach of Normandy. Such a heartbreaking sacrifice.

[motor]

"I see when I fired at those young boys... We could've been good friends" Words that will ring in the minds of every man ever to fight the good fight till the end of time

[corvoattano]

5 years more and the last of them rests.:) Godbless to all WW2 veterans all over the world.

💘 🇵🇭

[JD-odjh]

"Were you a hero in the war, poppy?"

Yes, yes you were. And you still are a hero today.

[ReviewWingsDSP]

My grandfather went through Normandy, Korea and the beginning of Vietnam. Drank himself to death when he returned. I was in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. My appreciation for these men has no bounds. We carry the torch. Thank you men and women. We got this.

[officialxverzusz]

I'm Hungarian
I don't have any family member who fought in war, or swrved at Normandy
But I am showing massive, MASSIVE respect, for every brave soldier, who risked their lives for the sake of fighting of their enemies.

[franklin]

The Greatest Generation, I never forget!
Respect from Brazil.


Obs: The Brazilian army sent about 25, 000 soldiers to fight in Italy alongside the Americans in WWII, more than 400 Brazilian soldiers lost their lives in the bloody battle of Monte Castelo.
My grandfather (21 years old) was one of those 400 men who unfortunately died to save Italy and the world of the Nazism.

R.I.P Soldado Raul Lino Souza - 4º BE Cmb

[blazehunter]

My great grandfather was a (german) Sniper in Normandy, he used to tell me a story, where he was sitting in a tree at night overlooking a trench of americans and then heard a trumpet. He didn't shoot anybody that night, thought of his family at home, (his wife, sister and my grandfather (his son)). In the morning he surrendered to the americans. He also told me he wanted to find that american soldier who played that trumpet, and so he did, before he was sent on that boat to the UK where he was sent to a POW camp, he found him. He returned 2 years after the war back to the family, but didn't hear of the american soldier anymore. He sadly passed away last year on the 7th of June.

[ron]

I'm 65 and a navy vet. I will always be grateful to this generation of warriors who stood tall to defend and give me the freedoms I had in life. Shame on anyone who disrespects our country and flag. God bless you all. You will never be forgotten. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️

[edgar.n]

Anyone who put their boots on the day of D-Day are Heroes! Period. Salute to you brave men!