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Paul Gray and family have provided us with these fabulous

pictures of this occasion.

Located in Vierville-sur-Mer

The 146th ECB Plaque is located on the West face of the 5th Engineer monument at Omaha Beach. The 299th ECB is on the South face.

Our host for the tour,

Paul Gray

The 5th Engineer Special Brigade Monument

is located on Omaha Beach on top of a gun turret.

6th Engineer Special Brigade's new Monument, dedicated in 1998 at Vierville-sur-Mer

The 29th Infantry Division monument

at Vierville-sur-Mer

The American Cemetery in Normandy

View towards the West, Point Du Hoc

just around the corner of the coastline. Notice 3 helicopters.

Omaha Beach Ghost Ship !

(Probably a flat top)

Gun emplacement on hill over house.

Long walk to the 5th Brigade Monument

The tour guide for family and friends.

A total of 11 in the Gray group.

Count the photographer too!

The 299th ECB Plaque, on South face of the

5th Special Brigade Monument.

A closeup of the 146th ECB Plaque

on the West face of the

5th Engr. Spc. Brigd.

The red ribbon supplied by Linda Gray.

A well protected enemy machinegun emplacement.

Our friend from The Netherlands, Jan Kock at lunch with Paul Gray.

Old enemies, now friends!

Bruno, a German soldier, got captured and sent to the US. Went

to England after the war, married and lives in England.

Gave Paul a great book

authored by a Frenchman.

It seemed befitting to close this page with

KILROY!

This is a member of the 299th Engineer Combat Battalion, Michael Accordino, whom Paul met on June7th while strolling on the Normandy Cemetery Blvd.

The 299th ECB hit Omaha Beach along side of the 146th ECB

on June 6th 1944

60 years ago!

Rosie and Paul Gray with a WW II Red Cross Worker, Janet Blair, now of Dallas, TX

who served the troops to doughnuts and coffee in 1944-45

Our thanks to Paul and Rosie Gray for sharing this wonderful experience with us, allowing those of us who were unable to be there in person to see some of the sights they saw. We can only imagine the emotional atmosphere this holy place can impart on Veteran visitors who took part in the Invasion of Normandy.

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Contributed by:

Omaha Beach looking to the East

General George S. (bloody guts) Patton's

grave in front of a chapel memorial in

Luxembourg.

Bunker off Point du Hoc

Building in Reims, Belgium where the German surrender was signed.

Some additional pictures sent by Howard

of the WW II Memorial in

Washington DC

D - Day 65th Anniversary

The Newton Kids, Benjamin & Caleb,

sent these pictures taken during their visit at the Ceremony in Normandy on

June 6th 2009

Here is their report:

The first day we went to the Normandy Cemetery we inquired about attending the ceremony. We were told by the staff that the ceremony was by invitation only, so we weren't expecting to be able to attend. However, they referred us to a Captain Carpenter, who was in charge of the Veterans who were attending the Ceremonies. In our attempts to find him, we were stopped by the Secret Service who said Carpenter was in a security meeting.We did finally manage to connect with him, and he was most kind and helpful.When Zandra Marlow (daughter of Jay E. Hansford < Co. 'A' - KIA on D-Day on Omaha Beach >) told him that her Dad was buried at the Cemetery, he immediately said he would be providing us with invitations to the Ceremony. He gave us four distinguished-looking invitations and even provided his cell phone number in the event we had any trouble getting through security. The seats we were assigned were only 14 rows from the front, just 3 rows behind the VIP seats. We never imagined we would be privileged to have such good seats.