This year is the 70th anniversary of D-Day, when 150,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile coastline in Normandy, France. It was the largest amphibious landing ever and was designed to fight Nazi Germany.
Battles are conducted so differently in the 2000s than they were then. The sad truth, for me, is that the world still finds new reasons and new ways to keep fighting. There are so many examples of the pain it causes. But that is not enough.
During D-Day more than 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded. One day. Surely the world believed that WWII had to be fought, but did all the others?
The many soldiers who stormed the beach, especially the first wave, knew it was a suicide mission. And they were courageous enough to do it.
More about the event:
- Website D-Day Memorial
- Website for National D-Day Memorial
- D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose.
- Double Cross: The True Story of the D-day Spies by Ben Macintyre.
