D-Day: Remembering The Sacrifice On Those Five Famous Beaches
Operation Overlord -- the planning, the execution, and how the Allies pulled it off
You will sometimes find keyboard warriors and anarchists dressed in black flattering themselves by borrowing the reputation of the heroes from that day and claiming it as their own.
You will see a photo taken from within a landing craft as it nears the beaches of Normandy and a photo of the activists terrorizing some street. Fighting fascists then. Fighting fascists now.
Such photos must rank among the lowest form of stolen valor.
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
Anyone with real relevance for what happened that day of carnage would never put themselves in the same category.
That day consisted of
One Operation. (Overlord).
Five Beaches. (Omaha, Utah, Juno, Sword, Gold)
Three countries (USA, Canada, UK) — and some free French.
156,000 Allied troops took part.
4,414 Allied troops were killed that day.
2,501 were Americans.
That courage and sacrifice was the beginning of the fall of Hitler’s Reich.
