June 6th, 1944, The Great Operation · 7:46am Jun 6th, 2016
72 years ago today, soldiers of the Western Allies embarked upon the Great Crusade to free Europe from the jackboot of Nazi Oppression. Landing on 50 miles of coast in Normandy, these brave men risked death in the face of unrelenting enemy fire to smash Hitler's Atlantic Wall. Fortress Europa (Europe) had been breached and the begging of the end of the Third Reich was set in stone. Here's to the men who took great risk to see through the largest seaborne invasion ever made in the history of warfare. For without their sacrifice, the world would be a very different and dark place
"And when he get's to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: One more soldier reporting Sir, I've served my time in Hell"
--PFC. James A. Donahue, USMC. 1st Marine Division, H Company, 2nd. Battalion, 1st. Regiment (on his grave on Guadalcanal in 1942)
