On the anniversary of
the D-Day invasion, Katie Lange at the DOD News offers a piece on five things
you may not know about D-Day.
D-Day. The Invasion of
Normandy. Operation Overlord. It goes by various names, but we've all heard
about it through history class, grandparents, the news or shows like "Band
of Brothers."
June 6, 1944, is the day
when more than 160,000 Allied forces landed in Nazi-occupied France as part of
the biggest air, land and sea invasion ever executed. It ended with heavy
casualties — more than 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded in those
first 24 hours — but D-Day is largely considered the successful beginning of
the end of Hitler's tyrannical regime.
The bravery by the
paratroopers and soldiers who stormed Normandy that day is well-known, but
there are a lot of things you may not know about D-Day. Here are a few of those
nuggets.
You can read the rest of
the piece and view photos of the historic invasion via the below link:
5 Things You May Not Know About D-Day > U.S. Department of Defense > Story
