D-Day June 6, 1944 Operation Overlord
My dad, Joseph E. Nachman. June 6, 1944…Operation Overlord…D-Day. To some of you this day may just be another day on the calendar, but to others (like me) this day stands to remind of us the degree of sacrifice courageous men have gone to defend this great country and it’s people. In this post I am sharing a few pictures from a journal that somehow ended up in my possession. The background story…my father, Joseph E. Nachman died on July 11, 1970. I was two weeks shy of my 6th birthday. As I grew up I heard of stories of how he had earned the medals that rested in the special footlocker in my mom’s room and I heard that my dad was involved in Big Red One, but what that all meant I did not know. Fast forward…I had moved several times…at least 10 and one day I was looking through a box and saw a Manila envelope that was addressed to my dad. It had been opened, but not seem like ...
