{"id":1809,"date":"2019-06-06T06:12:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T10:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2019-06-06T06:12:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T10:12:40","slug":"d-day-75-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/06\/06\/d-day-75-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"D-Day &#8211; 75 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">D-Day \u2013 Seventy-Five Years Ago<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"1812\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/img_4426-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_4426-2.jpg?fit=3024%2C4032&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3024,4032\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone SE&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1559469446&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0666666666667&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_4426\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_4426-2.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_4426-2.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_4426-2.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_4426-2.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_4426-2.jpg?resize=1200%2C1600&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_4426-2.jpg?resize=1320%2C1760&amp;ssl=1 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_4426-2.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_4426-2.jpg?w=2520&amp;ssl=1 2520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both my parents passed away in the last few years.&nbsp;&nbsp;They were in their nineties, and lived a wonderful life together.&nbsp;&nbsp;They were active, travelling and enjoying life until just the last few years.&nbsp;&nbsp;They were very lucky, and very in love, and our family was very lucky to have them for so long.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mom was born in London, Phyllis Mary Teresa O\u2019Connor. As the baby of her family she was nicknamed \u201cBabs,\u201d a name she used her entire life.&nbsp;&nbsp;She was British, and educated in England and later in Belgium.&nbsp;&nbsp;She married Donald Lee Dahlman of Cincinnati, an American soldier who was part of the vast US Army preparing to invade Europe.&nbsp;&nbsp;They were joined on March 27<sup>th<\/sup>, 1944, in a civil ceremony in England.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was a finance officer, making sure the troops were paid.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mom supposedly worked in the Old Age Pensions Office in London, but was actually a part of the SOE, the Special Operations Executive.&nbsp;&nbsp;They were an elite unit who carried on the fight against the Germans in Occupied Europe, slipping into France on small aircraft to plot espionage attacks and communicate with the Resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were supposed to be married in June, but moved their wedding date up because they received orders to report to their units.  It was clear that the invasion of Europe, D-Day, was coming.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Babs\u2019s mother got all of her friends to pitch in part of their sugar rations for the cake, and her brother Leslie contributed champagne he had managed to get off the beach at Dunkirk during the evacuation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019s cousin and friend from Cincinnati, Buddy Levine, served as best man, and the two were married. It was a civil ceremony because Babs was Roman Catholic and Don was Jewish.\u00a0The Church wouldn\u2019t accept their union unless Don promised to raise any children as Catholic, and he wouldn\u2019t.\u00a0In the end, the British end of the family had less trouble with the religious differences than those back in Cincinnati.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of her secret life, Babs spent time in the \u201cWar Rooms\u201d in London.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Those were the secret underground headquarters of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his generals.&nbsp;&nbsp;SOE was a small group, developed and used by those top leaders to carry out their particular missions.&nbsp;&nbsp;She became acquainted with some of the commanding Generals; the telegram congratulating them on the wedding from Omar Bradley still remains in their scrapbook.&nbsp;She adored Bradley, but didn\u2019t have much good to say about Eisenhower, who disparaged her \u201cuniform.\u201d The SOE was improvisational in much of what they did, both in Europe, and in their uniform choices.&nbsp;&nbsp;Babs didn\u2019t appreciate criticism from a \u201cYank General.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like most British citizen, Babs adored Field Marshal Montgomery, \u201cMonty.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;He was their \u201cwinner;\u201d the man who drove the Nazis out of North Africa and led the successful invasion of Sicily.&nbsp;&nbsp;She had a sketch of Monty; a small color drawing done by a friend during a planning meeting.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was on the wall of their home for sixty-six years, and it\u2019s hanging in my family room today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the wedding there was little time for \u201choneymooning,\u201d just a couple days of hiking in the countryside.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then Don reported to Southampton, the debarkation point for much of the Army heading to Normandy.&nbsp;&nbsp;He would say he hit the beach \u201c\u2026with the third wave of WACs (the Women\u2019s Army Corp).\u201d&nbsp;He spent the next several months in France, making sure the GI\u2019s got their pay checks, and trying to deal with the complications of French, Nazi, and Occupation currency.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Babs left their wedding to report to headquarters, and was soon flying out of RAF Base at Tempsford, on a small single engine plane called a \u201cLysander.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The plane could land on a short farm field, only 600 yards, and was designed to fly low and close to avoid enemy radar.\u00a0\u00a0Agents were dropped off in the night, often met by French Resistance operatives who put flashlights out to outline the \u201clanding strip.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was dropped into Normandy, where she helped prepare Resistance plans for D-Day.&nbsp;&nbsp;Phone lines were cut, rail lines disrupted; 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