🇬🇧 100 Yr Old British Veterans Honored, Normandy, France, 82nd DDay Anniversary June 6, 1944, WW2 [View all]

- "For your tomorrow, we gave our today"

Marking the 82nd anniversary of the June 6, 1944 D-Day Landings, 100-year-old British vets Ken Hart and Henry Rice were honored at a Remembrance Service at the General Montgomery monument in Colleville- Montgomery, Normandy.
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- D-Day and the Normandy Campaign,
(National World War II Museum, New Orleans)

On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched the long-anticipated invasion of Normandy, France. Soldiers from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and other Allied nations faced Hitler's formidable Atlantic Wall as they landed on the beaches of Normandy.

Photo: "Into the Jaws of Death" — US troops wade through water and Nazi gunfire, June 6, 1944. Records of US Coast Guard (NAID 355).

BUILDUP AND TRAINING
The planning for an invasion in northwest Europe began years in advance, although it was not until December 1943, when General Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, that preparations for the future operation, code-named Overlord, intensified.

THE PLAN
Operation Fortitude successfully deceived German High Command into expecting a landing at Pas-de-Calais. Instead, the Allies targeted a 50-mile stretch of Normandy coastline. The plan had two components: Operation Neptune, the naval assault phase, and Operation Overlord, the broader invasion strategy. Approximately 160,000 Allied troops were to land across five beaches: Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha, and Utah, with British and American airborne forces landing inland...
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