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Arrow 5 facts you need to know about D-Day, June 6, 1944

5 facts you need to know about D-Day, June 6, 1944
Updated on June 6, 2017 at 9:50 AM Posted on June 6, 2017 at 8:51 AM
BY DIANE C. LORE
Re: http://www.silive.com/news/2017/06/5...now_about.html

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In this photo, allied troops crouch behind the bulwarks of a landing craft as it nears Omaha Beach during a landing in Normandy, France. The D-Day invasion broke through Adolf Hitler's western defenses and led to the liberation of France from Nazi occupation just as the Soviet Army was making advances in the east, turning the tide of the war in the Allies' favor. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, File)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- June 6 marks the 73rd anniversary of D-Day, one of the most decisive battles of World War II.

On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops -- about half of them Americans -- landed on Omaha Beach, along the coast of Normandy, France, as part of an assault on Nazi forces.

D-Day marked the beginning of the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June to August 1944 and resulted in the liberation of Western Europe. Almost a year after the Battle -- on May 8, 1945 -- the Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany.
Although historically, June 4 is known as D-Day, in military terminology, "D-Day" is the day on which any given combat operation begins. The actual landing was called "Operation Overlord."

At the time, Allied commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower, said the U.S. and its allies would "accept nothing less than full victory."

The invasion is considered one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history. More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, which successfully gave the Allies a foothold in Continental Europe as it continued the march against the forces of Adolph Hitler.

The cost of victory was high, with more than 9,000 American, British and Canadian soldiers killed or wounded. Some 2,000 U.S. soldiers were killed at the battle of Omaha Beach alone.

The sacrifice of those men was recognized at a wreath-laying ceremony in Sainte-Mere Eglise, France, at the base of the Iron Mike Memorial there.

The 14-foot tall statue of a World War II airborne soldier, a copy of a sculpture that stands in Fort Bragg, NC, was erected to pay tribute to American paratroopers and infantry soldiers who lost their lives on D-Day.

Army General Curtis Scaparrotti, NATO's supreme allied commander for Europe and the commander of U.S. forces in Europe, presided at the ceremony.

"There are moments in a nation's history when its future course is decided by a chosen few who walked bravely into the valley of the shadow of death," Scaparrotti said. "In such moments, young men and women pledge their lives so that their nation can live."
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