LEST WE FORGET
D Day June 6, 1944
Robert Capa’s Iconic D-Day Photo of a Soldier in the Surf
LEST WE FORGET - the 75th anniversary of D-Day today where 4-9,000 German soldier's died and 10,000 Allies were injured and 4,414 confirmed dead in the first and biggest landing of troops then known as Operation Neptune
BBC coverage 6th June 2019 |
BBC D-Day veterans salute the dead and survivors 6th June 2019 |
97-year-old vet jumps into Normandy, 75 years after D-Day
Tom Rice parachuted into Normandy, France, on the 75th anniversary, riding in the same type of plane he jumped from in 1944: a C-47
In the ensuing Battle of Normandy, 73,000 Allied forces were killed and 153,000 wounded. The battle — and especially Allied bombings of French villages and cities — killed some 20,000 French civilians.
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