Anniversaries come and go, but here's one that's actually worth remembering. Fifty-six years ago, the western Allies staged the largest seaborne invasion in history, breaching Hitler's Atlantic Wall at Normandy and opening up the so-called second front that squeezed Germany between the Anglo-Americans and the Russians. Although it was not the decisive battle of the European theater -- Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk had already determined how the war would end -- D-Day and the subsequent Allied drive across France certainly hastened the end of the Third Reich.
June 6, 1944
Anniversaries come and go, but here's one that's actually worth remembering. Fifty-six years ago, the western Allies staged the largest seaborne invasion in history, breaching Hitler's Atlantic Wall at Normandy and opening up the so-called second front that squeezed Germany between the Anglo-Americans and the Russians. Although it was not the decisive battle of the European theater -- Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk had already determined how the war would end -- D-Day and the subsequent Allied drive across France certainly hastened the end of the Third Reich.
