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But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me? What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?
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June 6th 1944: D-Day

On this day in 1944, the D-Day landings began on the beaches of Normandy as part of the Allied ‘Operation Overlord’. The largest amphibious military operation in history, the operation involved thousands of Allied troops landing in France. For those landing on the beaches of Normandy, they faced heavy fire, mines and other obstacles on the beach, but managed to push inland. In charge of the operation was future US President General Dwight Eisenhower and leading the ground forces was British General Bernard Montgomery. The landings proved a decisive Allied victory, as they secured a foothold in France which had been defeated by Nazi Germany in 1940. D-Day was a key moment in the Second World War and helped turn the tide of the war in favour of the Allies. 70 years on, we remember not just the strategic victory that was D-Day but also the ultimate sacrifice paid by thousands of soldiers on both sides of the fighting.

“You are about to embark upon the great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months.”
- Eisenhower’s message to the Allied Expeditionary Force

70 years ago today

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    76 years ago today. And yet, we are literally fighting the same ideas resurgent, today.
  4. hezigler hat gesagt: Everyone should watch the first half hour or so of “Saving Private Ryan” today. I know many fellow Americans may want to add, “especially the French,” but we’ve done a better job of betraying the promise of their sacrifices in recent decades than the French have in three quarters of a century.
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