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Commander Wallace · 06-06-22, 04:47 PM

Today marks the 78th anniversary of Operation Overlord which saw the allied forces of the U.S, England and Canada taking five separate beach heads. By the end of August of 1944, all of northern France was liberated and the allied forces being reorganized for the drive into Nazi Germany. These forces met the Soviet Army moving westward from the East to bring about the end for the Nazi Reich.

Quote: The National D-Day Memorial Foundation is one of those organizations. At its memorial site in Bedford, Virginia, there are 4,414 names enshrined in bronze plaques representing every Allied soldier, sailor, airman and coast guardsman who died on D-Day. That figure
was the result of years of exhaustive research by librarian and genealogist Carol Tuckwiller on behalf of the Foundation, and remains the most accurate count of Allied fatalities within the 24-hour period known as D-Day.

John Long, director of education at the National D-Day Memorial Foundation, says that when the memorial was first being planned in the late 1990s, there were wildly different estimates for Allied D-Day fatalities ranging from 5,000 to 12,000. German casualties on D-Day, meanwhile, have been estimated to be between 4,000 and 9,000 killed, wounded or missing. The Allies also captured some 200,000 German prisoners of war.

https://www.history.com/news/d-day-c...-deaths-allies

https://www.britannica.com/event/Normandy-Invasion

To those brave men who fought and died on those beaches and those brave souls who lost their lives in the cause of freedom 78 years ago.

~ We will never forget. ~

Edit. Administrators, please combine with the post by Skybird. I hadn't seen his post and had held off posting the anniversary thread so that others could post on this date 78 years ago. although, my article is more in depth and completely about this solemn event, date and significance of the landings.

06-06-22, 04:47 PM	#5
Commander Wallace Navy Seal Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Under the sea in an Octupus garden in the shade Posts: 5,299 Downloads: 366 Uploads: 0	78th anniversary of the Normandy landings ( D-day ) Today marks the 78th anniversary of Operation Overlord which saw the allied forces of the U.S, England and Canada taking five separate beach heads. By the end of August of 1944, all of northern France was liberated and the allied forces being reorganized for the drive into Nazi Germany. These forces met the Soviet Army moving westward from the East to bring about the end for the Nazi Reich. Quote: The National D-Day Memorial Foundation is one of those organizations. At its memorial site in Bedford, Virginia, there are 4,414 names enshrined in bronze plaques representing every Allied soldier, sailor, airman and coast guardsman who died on D-Day. That figure was the result of years of exhaustive research by librarian and genealogist Carol Tuckwiller on behalf of the Foundation, and remains the most accurate count of Allied fatalities within the 24-hour period known as D-Day. John Long, director of education at the National D-Day Memorial Foundation, says that when the memorial was first being planned in the late 1990s, there were wildly different estimates for Allied D-Day fatalities ranging from 5,000 to 12,000. German casualties on D-Day, meanwhile, have been estimated to be between 4,000 and 9,000 killed, wounded or missing. The Allies also captured some 200,000 German prisoners of war. https://www.history.com/news/d-day-c...-deaths-allies https://www.britannica.com/event/Normandy-Invasion To those brave men who fought and died on those beaches and those brave souls who lost their lives in the cause of freedom 78 years ago. ~ We will never forget. ~ Edit. Administrators, please combine with the post by Skybird. I hadn't seen his post and had held off posting the anniversary thread so that others could post on this date 78 years ago. although, my article is more in depth and completely about this solemn event, date and significance of the landings.