With today being the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
Frank Kohnke arrived in France just after the June 6 landings, and on September 17, his 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment participated in the largest airborne operation of all time. Operation Market Garden sought to capture bridges over the Rhine, allowing the Allies to advance into Germany through the Netherlands and enter the Ruhr industrial region, the heart of the Nazi war machine.
The operation failed and losses were catastrophic. Nearly 4,000 Americans were killed, severely wounded or taken prisoner.
Eight decades later, Frank Kohnke does not talk about it.
"I don't like to remember the bad things," he said. "At my age, it is better just to forget them."
--GreGen
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