June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded -- but more than 100,000 Soldiers began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler...Lets just have a moment of silence for the men who had the balls to die on that beach on this day Im sorry but we have it easy nowadays compared to how they had it then I could only imagine what was going through there minds
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:40:29 +0000
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