D-Day Soldiers Testify to God’s Grace
 ode-named Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. By late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans. We are privileged to have three such veterans and real-life heroes joining us in New Orleans this June! Mr. Herb Griffin will be with us for most of our tour and the Terrell brothers will join us for the special D-Day Anniversary dinner Monday night at the Stage Door Canteen in the WWII Museum. They will share their exciting stories and testify of God’s amazing grace in their lives.
Moving out over the seawall on Utah Beach
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An LST and other ships and landing craft sit off Utah Beach
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An Army vehicle rolls off a landing craft at Utah Beach
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Herb Griffin
Mr. Griffin is one of many brave American men who stormed Utah Beach on June 6, 1944. The most grateful and cheerful of men, Mr. Griffin is always giving thanks to God for preserving him on that fateful day. Wounded at Saint-Lô in Normandy the following month, he spent his 19th birthday and many subsequent months in hospitals. Today Mr. Griffin lives in Jacksonville, Florida, serving the Lord by giving selflessly of his time and optimism to all those around him.
L.C. & Ubert Terrell
Lampton, “L.C.”, and Ubert Terrell grew up in rural Louisiana. L.C. led a special combat engineering task force of 36 men onto Utah Beach, of which 12 died in the invasion. His brother, Ubert, now 96, parachuted behind German lines five times, working with the French resistance and gathering intelligence before the D-Day invasion. Of 35 soldiers in his special task force, only five survived through the war. “That’s the hero of the group,” Terrell said of Ubert. “What I did, it worked out fine. I completed my mission in good style, with losses of course. But this guy, what he did, he had to be extra, extraordinary and skillful in what he did in picking up this information we needed to plan the invasion.”
Introduce Your Children to the Last of an Extraordinary Generation!
These remarkable men are the very last of an exceptional generation. Don’t miss this chance to introduce your children to men that forged their freedom on the anvil of adversity. Register today and reserve your spot in history.
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