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1 3 th A nniv ersa r y o f T he O kla ho ma D - D a y Event
Dedic ated to Pl ato o n Sergean t Eno s Armstro n g, 2 3 8 th Co mbat Eng ineer s
Oklahoma D-Day 2010 Regardless if this is just your first visit to D-Day, or you are a twelve tour vet, be prepared for the best paintball experience you‟ve ever had. Since last June some obvious and not so obvious
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Oklahoma D-Day Origins The origins of The Annual Oklahoma D-day Event can traced all the way back to June 6, 1944 when the guns from the world‟s largest invasion fleet blasted the French coastline, while overhead Allied aircraft pounded German positions along the Normandy coast of France. It was during this invasion that some five hundred men from the United States Army‟s 238th Combat Engineer Battalion prepared for a landing on Utah beach. They were young, well trained, courageous soldiers who would eventually fight their way from Utah Beach all the way to the Elbe River. Along the way they‟d build hundreds of bridges under fire, lay thousands of mines, fight at the Bridge of Remagen and help liberate the DoraMittlebau concentration camp.
changes have taken place here in Wyandotte. In Caen for example you can find some signs of changes. Among some of the other notable game changes this year, is the shorter stays in the dead zones and a new reinsertion procedure. Both of these changes will be explained to you during your „Orientation Briefing.‟ The field has also been expanded once again, this year by an additional thirty acres, plus they‟ve also moved two key objectives, Sword Beach and Brecourt Manor to new locations and they‟ve also added more trenches and bunkers in a number of other key locations and if all that wasn‟t enough, they‟ve also made some welcome improvements to the allied staging/dead zone area at Omaha Beach.
Among those men was a young platoon sergeant by the name of Enos Armstrong (see photo). Unlike many of his fellow comrades who never made it home, Enos would return and live to tell stories about his wartime experiences to his grandson, Dewayne Convirs. This young boy loved listening to his grandpa tell his war stories and he grew up fascinated with history, especially with the history of the World War 2 era. When his Grandfather died unexpectedly in 1996, Dewayne searched to find something which he could dedicate to Enos, to his service to this country and to his memory. Two years later, in 1997, Dewayne decided to host the very first Oklahoma D-Day Paintball Event. That first D-Day event drew a 135 players. To add to the excitement players experienced, they stormed the shores of a small pond using a handmade plywood landing craft. A following year, when he decided to hold his second D-Day Event in in the summer of 1998, 335 paintball players turned out to take part. That‟s when he knew he‟d found the perfect way to honor the grandfather he‟d grown to love so much.