June 6: D-Day at Normandy
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Remember D-Day on June 6, 1944, when Allied troops stormed Normandy, shaping the future of Europe and showing the power of courage in the face of adversity.
Today in history, June 6, 1944: before dawn, thousands of Allied troops moved toward the coast of Normandy, knowing the first minutes could decide the future of Europe. The invasion, code-named Operation Neptune within the larger Operation Overlord, brought land, sea, and air forces together on a scale the world had never seen. Soldiers from the United States, Britain, Canada, and other Allied nations crossed rough water, landed under fire, and began pushing into Nazi-occupied France. D-Day did not end the war in a day, but it opened the road toward the liberation of Western Europe. It still matters because freedom often turns on courage shown by people who may never know how much history depends on them.
