Commemorating 80th Anniversary of D-Day Landings in France (June 6, 2024)

On June 6, 1944, Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France. This turned the tides of World War II and led to the liberation of Europe from Nazism. (RELATED: Fascism belongs to the Left.) Via C-SPAN Via PBS NewsHour “Eighty years ago, the liberation of Europe from the horrors of the Nazis began with Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy. Nearly 200,000 thousand soldiers, principally Americans, Brits and Canadians, landed on June 6, 1944, across five beach sectors. Malcolm Brabant is in northern France and met some of the veterans of D-Day.”

D-Day: What happened during the Normandy landings 80 years ago? “[H]ow the Allies carried out Operation Overlord and how it launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during the second world war.”

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