A U.S. Coast Guard landing barge, tightly packed with helmeted soldiers, approaches the shore at Normandy, France, during initial Allied landing operations, June 6, 1944. These barges ride back and forth across the English Channel, bringing wave after wave of reinforcement troops to the Allied beachheads. (AP Photo)
Unser Seeliger Adolf !!
Working on a ship I came to know the captain who told me about how his post-war German bride was not allowed entry in the US. He and his wife were only able to enter by walking across the US/Canadian border. He said “the Army wasn’t denying the Japanese wives of servicemen, only Germans.”
Another story he told me was that when he was a kid he and a few buddies skipped school to see a train offload some German prisoners during the war. He was dismayed to discover that instead of the hulking, sadistic mad-dog German soldiers he had heard so much about the prisoners they were offloading were middle aged men along with (and mostly) women and children taken from their homes in the Carribean, Central and South America. “They looked just like us” he told me.