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This series focuses on Bill’s return to Omaha beach in 2022, 78 years after he landed with the first wave.
Tony and Ryan Walk Bill Parker’s Path on D-Day at Omaha Beach
After extensive research, Tony and Ryan find and walk the likely path Bill Parker took as a soldier who landed on D-Day in the first wave with the 116th Reg of the 29th Inf Division.
Currents swept his landing craft to the west away from his landing beach on Easy Red to Easy Green where he would've scaled the less well defended St. Laurent Draw.
This was filmed on June 6th, 2022 on the 78 anniversary of this fateful day. Join us as we walk in his footsteps…
Note: In the video I have east and west reversed.
Tony and Ryan (L-R) on Omaha Beach with Bill Parker on June 6, 2022. Bill died on Sept 11, 2023. God Bless Bill Parker…
Bill Visits Grave at The American Cemetery at Normandy
Ryan was able to find the grave of Captain Lawrence Madill, an officer Bill served with who died on Normandy. Captain Madill was killed while running ammunition to his company as it was pinned down by enemy fire on the beach.
Bill Parker as a young man in the 29th Inf. Division prior to his time in combat on Omaha and Nazi Occupied Europe.
Bill at Omaha beach on June 6th, 2022, 78 years after the fateful day when he first stepped on the the shores of Normandy. This was Bill’s first visit to Normandy since 1944…
Bill visits our recording studio at the Green Barn and is given the same rifle, the M1 Garand, he used during the war. Notice which hand is on the trigger…Bill is a lefty!
Bill reflecting on the landing beach 78 years removed from the horrors he faced. This location was the same spot he landed on June 6th, 1944.
Bill was mobbed everywhere he went in Normandy. The people from that region were amazing.
Bill visiting the gravesite of Capt Lawrence Madill, who died during the Normandy landings.