June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a stretch of 50 miles of the 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 complete victory." more than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and at the end of the day on June 6, the Allies gained a foot - hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high, more than 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded - but more than 100,000 Soldiers began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler. - USA Army.mil
D-Day heroes who fought and survived to remember.
The historian Paul Kengor recalls D-Day with Ike and Reagan.
40 anniversary speech of President Reagan:
And a classic counter-report on how today's media have covered the 1944 Normandy invasion
