Comments on: The Power of The Sea https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/06/06/the-power-of-the-sea-2/ Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:46:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Samphire https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/06/06/the-power-of-the-sea-2/#comment-488281 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:46:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=16902#comment-488281 In 2009 we sailed our boat across from Portsmouth to GrandCamp-Maisy a small port bang in the middle of the Amrican invasion beaches to commemorate the 65th anniversary. I was very surprised to find that we were the only British boat there.

5 years earlier we had sailed across to the British sector for the 60th. There was lots going on for a few days but only half a dozen boats bothered to make the trip.

]]> By: j a higginbotham https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/06/06/the-power-of-the-sea-2/#comment-488280 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 05:37:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=16902#comment-488280 My dad was fortunately in the States at the time. He was assigned somewhere in the northeast, Maine? and was given the task of weather forecasting. Neither he nor the other guy knew the first thing about weather, so they just read the previous day’s weather from Ohio or somewhere.
I miss him.

]]> By: Mark P https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/06/06/the-power-of-the-sea-2/#comment-488279 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:51:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=16902#comment-488279 Yes, an important event, but not one that is really thought much about these days. It’s too long ago and almost no one who was there is alive today. My father landed a while after D-Day and regretted that he couldn’t have taken part. I’m pretty much glad and probably lucky that he didn’t.

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