D-Day, Omaha Beach (2014) 描画 Edwin Loftus によって

June 6, 1944. As near as I have been able to determine, climbing up out of the water and onto the beach probably looked a little like this.
My father was in the US Navy in the Pacific, far from this battle.
My mother was in the Women's Army Corps, stationed in the Pentagon War Room, a theater like set up with a large map of the Normandy Coast, cluttered with little signs on wooden stands indicating American forces, allies' forces and German forces and positions.
Surrounding that were women answering phones lines connected to various intelligence resource relay stations. She was in a bank of female officers sitting above the phone operators. The operators would write down their information and pass it to runners that would deliver the notes to My mother's section. She and her peers would determine which general or admiral needed the information and pass it to runners that would hand deliver it to the right command officers. They would write orders that were passed to other command staff and down to women stationed around the edge of the map. They used long sticks with a cross-piece to push or pull the various forces around on the map, or remove them, giving a visual indication of the progress of the battle to the command officers in the top-most row.
Over the next 10 days roughly 18,000 German and Axis Ally soldiers, more than 20,000 American and United Nations Allies and more than 50,000 French civilians would die in this single battle.
It was nothing compared to what the men and civilian bi-standers on the coast of Europe were facing, but I am proud to be able to say that my mother played a role in the D-Day Invasion.

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