Saving......Private Ryan

[Denis]

Not an re-enactor but an American veteran of three major wars, jumped with the 82nd airborne the  'All Americans'  into Sainte Mere Eglise five hours ahead of the main invasion landings in Normandy in 1944.

 

Jumped again into Holland at Nijmegen in September 1944 and watched  Montgomery's XXX Corp (complete with my father) roll by in their tanks on the way to Arnhem, the 'Bridge too far'

 

Served in Korea and again in Vietnam rising from his start rank of Private Ryan to Regimental Sergeant Major Ryan.

 

Photographed at the Parham airfield museum Sunday 19th May where he was visiting with  US College students on a visit of sites in the UK relevent to US armed forces history. Parham was an airfield used by the B-17 flying fortresses of the 390th Bomb Group of the USAAF in WWII.

 

 

[fuzzyedges]

We do it for fun

But we respect the real guys and to talk to them is a privelage

There is no one left from ww1 and there isnt that many years left before we lose the ww2 heros

I am able to do what I do now because of what they did          Respect

[annie]

big respect...

[Heather]

what an amazing man

[NannyFerret]

A lovely picture of a proud man who can hold his head high.

[Kobione]

A lovely picture of a proud man who can hold his head high.

 

Most certainly agree, what a privilege to be able to talk to someone like that

[fuzzyedges]

To me they are all heros  but this guy seems super human

I came across this today

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320463/ROBERT-HARDMAN-Hero-Captain-Eric-Winkle-Brown-makes-Biggles-look-like-wimp-tells-story.html

[NannyFerret]

Thanks for sharing that link.

I bet his memoirs are a good and interesting read too.