Jean Lambert is a way of thinking is, Normandy invasion was chaotic than brave.   Staff Sgt. , 86 Jean Lambert, 1,069 veterans of World War II France 2004 with an army of Honor is awarded is one. St. Valentine’s Day on the occasion of Jean Lambert was born in 1923, participated in high tech, and entered the Army in 1943. He was sent abroad in the summer of 1944.   United States, the French Ambassador Pierre Vimont of Dawsonville Jean Lambert, the Medal of Honor at a ceremony this army will be present Thursday at the State Capitol. 

The barbed wire to climb, so a huge crowd that packed the drop area and start discarding items. Lambert, 86, Dawsonville, a staff sergeant 35 of which “we take a blanket, I put the rope around the tent, throw it on our shoulders, and we keep all the other  stuff, they gave us was” Infantry Division said July 5, 1944 landed on Omaha beach. So it was excavated and running, walking and excavation. “If you were advancing and that they stopped you, you do not load automatically and you pick a half dozen” should be called, maybe ‘and you want to go another 100 yards and one thing inside Let’s start digging. … Navy he was fast day and night, you could hear him all night going zoom, zoom, zoom. “Lambert Thursday when the campaign’s other veterans rejoins, it will be in friendlier circumstances. Ten Southeast participated in the Normandy campaign in a ceremony at the State Capitol Honor, France’s highest honors U.S. soldiers from the Army will receive Pierre Vimont, French ambassador to the United States presided over by.

 The Lambert’s an extraordinary day, because all the time that has passed since the attack will be more special. Some 65 years after the fact, the French government still fought on American GIS environment and the Omaha Beach and demand to thank for the compliment.  Atlanta Consulate General of France, to host the party spokesperson Claire Collobert “I’m always amazed how these dynamic and we’re in very good condition when these people hosted” said. “Some of them one found in another 60-65 years, and they feel that they were in that category. “It is for men and one emotional moment, “it is for us,” he said.  320 Regiment, a member of Lambert, is proud of the award, but a division that suffered 90 percent damage are among the remaining poor. Army estimates that the Allied Forces 209.000, were killed or wounded in the Normandy campaign was declared missing.“I’m one of the division, and division are all of us think. I’m just one of the boys,” he said   The split was a cat. 35 Normandy fought through the hedgerows, take St., across the river Moselle, Nancy took over and helped fight off four German divisions at Bastogne. With the 35th took heavy losses.

 “We Europe - France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg top star in every war,” Lambert said.Retired electrician is proud of his service. But, like many veterans of World War II, he never talked much about it.In fact, he never told his second wife when they were courting. “I do not know when I married her that he was a veteran and he was in all these wars and everything,” which is Jean Lambert said Joyce was married 12 years. It only recently, with the anniversary of D Day for the increased attention that he has started opening.

“He’s a good man., Joyce Lambert is a Christian man, and he loves people, and he is a humble man” said. Lambert’s first wife, Francis chain, died in 1994, the 50th anniversary of D Day. During that time, the French government was advancing U.S. troops who participated in Operation cataclysmic detection, the award honors efforts to send their names will be considered for the Army., Collobert “We get them to contact veterans associations which help us identify asked to try to fight in France.

Collobert, according to the 1069 France World War II veterans awarded the Honor of the Army 2004. Our country a sense of urgency because these old soldiers is fading fast away. Tom Beaty, according to founder and managing director of Atlanta Foundation War, a World War II vet dies witness based every 90 seconds. Conflict which served 16.1 million veterans, about 25 million are still alive, he said. Will be there later least 100,000 by 2024, and only a handful 12 years.French vote of thanks to your efforts, Beaty said, “This is a very respectable identify these people and their wish to show their appreciation.”

Willie Eugene “Jean Lambert” on the occasion of St. Valentine’s Day in 1923, was born and grew up in Atlanta City. High Tech to participate in 1943 after he entered the army. California already, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina and trained in New Jersey is being sent abroad in the summer of 1944.Before leaving the country, he and Francis were married. Her daughter, Carol Jean by wire, learned of the birth.Salience of their experience in war, terrible and terrifying lasting, he said. Remember that the German Army, were to run short of petrol supply truck, ammunition and horses in front of the lines - to create supply wagons hauling.

 After one particular battle, he suffered a sad sight: “I killed out all these beautiful horses that have been seen.”It was a snow cover in Bastogne, Belgium, that Lambert was knocked head first into a foxhole by a tree - burst - a mortar round that exploded at treetop level, down with the men spraying shrapnel and shards of wood.This event is sent to that hospital, he earned a Purple Heart and his team put aside for a period of agonizing. By the time he joined, the war was closing down. Queen Mary Lambert Back home, and immediately he and Francis had three children. Division games several years ago some troops back to visit France, Normandy to go back through your steps. Lambert was impressed with his reception. “We went through every town, they had banners in the streets and other dignitaries, they bring us in these buildings and these long-stemmed wine glasses and, boy, it felt really good.  “They told us that their children will never forget what the Americans and they did what we were teaching. It was really touch our hearts.”