{"id":157439,"date":"2024-06-06T11:56:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T15:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=157439"},"modified":"2024-06-06T11:56:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T15:56:57","slug":"d-day80-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=157439","title":{"rendered":"D-Day+80 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Landing on the coast of France under heavy Nazi machine gun fire are these American soldiers, shown just as they left the ramp of a Coast Guard landing boat, June 6, 1944. CPhoM. Robert F. Sargent. (Coast Guard)
NARA FILE #: 026-G-2343
WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 1041<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s that time of year again, where we take a moment to remember D-Day.\u00a0 I know David included it in his roundup on his daily collection of new, but I think it deserves its own post. Long time readers will notice that I actually got the number of years right, which I apparently screwed up not once but twice in previous years. When Hardin and AW1ED asked me to write here, I should have known they weren’t expecting much of me when the application was solely putting a mirror under my nose to look for fog.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a good day to re-read some of our old articles on the topic of Operation Overlord which commenced that day, better known as D-Day. Overlord was the Allied invasion of Fortress Europe on the coast of Normandy. It would be a marked success and the largest amphibious assault in history. At the time it was the largest airborne assault as well, and was only outdone several months later by Operation Market Garden (which involved many of the same units as Overlord). Opening a foothold on Continental Europe, from there the fate of the Nazis was sealed. Millions of Allied troops poured into France and in less than a year Germany had surrendered unconditionally and Hitler had killed himself.<\/p>\n

US Army History Center\u2019s D-Day piece<\/a><\/p>\n

Brig. General Theodore Roosevelt<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 One of only a handful of men who received the Medal of Honor for actions on 6 June 1944 at Normandy.<\/p>\n

AW1Ed\u2019s 75-year D-Day Retrospective<\/a><\/p>\n

Ex-PH2 reminds us of the importance of the weatherman on D-Day<\/a><\/p>\n

Flak Bait<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 B-26 Marauder that flew more than 200 combat missions over Europe and always came back, including D-Day.<\/p>\n

This delightful bit of bureaucratic nonsense<\/a>\u00a0that the war fighters had to death with from guys in the rear.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Rambo\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The D-Day Vet who broke out of a nursing home to make the 70th anniversary events<\/a><\/p>\n

And some outside links that readers previously added in the comments;<\/p>\n

D-Day Vet, “Why am I alive?”<\/a>\u00a0(Courtesy of CDR D)<\/p>\n

Chinese D-Day Ranger<\/a> (Courtesy of Mike B)<\/p>\n

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