81st Anniversary of D-Day

HONORING OUR HEROES: Today marks the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — the pivotal moment of World War II spearheaded by thousands of allied soldiers storming the French coastline that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler’s regime. pic.twitter.com/xz0CnZ4WKq

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D-Day Plus 80

80 years ago today:

From Wikipedia:

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.

"D-Day Plus 20 Years - Eisenhower Returns to Normandy"

Less than two months from now, the 80th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 Allied invasion of Europe, D-Day, will take place.

In 1964, CBS Reports commemorated the 20th anniversary of the invasion with Walter Cronkite and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower with a special. In it, Cronkite and Eisenhower discussed the invasion on the beaches of Normandy, France.

The video of that broadcast is on YouTube. I remember watching it when it first aired in 1964. 

Here's the video's summary:

The Allied invasion of Nazi-controlled France on June 6, 1944 was the largest military invasion in history, involving nearly 160,000 service members arriving by ship and air at Normandy. Its success turned the tide of World War II. Two decades after D-Day, former Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was Supreme Commander in charge of the operation, returned to Normandy. Eisenhower talked with CBS News' Walter Cronkite about his experiences in June 1944, the tactical decisions behind Operation Overlord, and how British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was talked out of joining the invading forces. Eisenhower and Cronkite visited the Allies' war room on England's southern coast; the coast of France, including Pointe du Hoc and Omaha Beach; and the American military cemetery at St. Laurent-on-the-Sea. This special broadcast of "CBS Reports," featuring newsreel footage of the invasion, originally aired in 19 countries around the world on June 5, 1964. 

D-DAY + 75

On June 6, 1944, more than 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. Gen. 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, the Allies gained a foot-hold in Continental Europe. The cost in lives on D-Day was high. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 100,000 Soldiers to begin the slow, hard slog across Europe, to defeat Adolf Hitler’s crack troops.

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General Eisenhower's message to the Allied troops: