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D-Day 
June 6, 1944
80th Anniversary 2024


Dawn, June 6, 2024
80th Anniversary Events
Felix Maurizio - Ordinary Soldier, Extraordinary Bravery
40 years Ago...President Ronald Reagan's Normandy Speech

D-Day In Pictures
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It was just after dawn on June 6, 1944.

Robert F. Sargent, a chief photographer's mate in the US Coast Guard, was aboard one of the many Higgins boats heading toward the shores of Normandy, France, at the start of the D-Day invasion. With him were soldiers from the US Army's 1st Infantry Division, cold and soaked from the choppy waters.

Sargent stayed on the boat, which returned to the USS Samuel Chase to bring more waves of troops to the shore. He carried his film in a metal milk can to keep it safe.

"The coast of France this morning was certainly no photographer's party," he told Winship. Sargent died in 2012.​

Click here for Sargent's DDay Pictures

D-Day Tribute:  Boy On The Beach

June 6th, 1944. Bloody Omaha Beach at Normandy littered with thousands of American bodies to save Europe and the rest of the world. We in America shall never forget the "Greatest Generation" of Americans who gave all to end the German massacre of Europe and the annihilation of the Jewish people.

 We gave all we had of our young men. Watch this humbling June 6th, 2014, video story of a little boy paying homage to our soldiers who died there, 70 years earlier. This is yet another validation why good citizens of this great country still love America and its Armed Forces members who continue to die to keep the world free from dictators and terrorists.

Thank You veterans for serving our country. Never let your children forget what those men did on Omaha Beach and in Europe during World War II. We celebrate Memorial Day today in America. Remember Veterans Day as well. Never forget!!

Normandy Invasion: Documentary

2024 Feature Film  
D-Day Operation Overlord

"June 6, 1944, the light of dawn" tells the story of Operation Overlord, which is to date the largest military operation that man has ever conceived. From the summer of 1941 until June 6, 1944. The landing is told like a historical drama with its intrigues, its twists and its thousands of young men who will die there. Entirely produced with cropped and colorized archives, this film by Jean-Christophe Rosé was broadcast on France Televisions as part of the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in June 2014.   Now, in 2024, this film is still worthy of your viewing and remembering the heroes of the "Greatest Generation".

00:00  June 6, 1944, D-Day
03:07 Tehran Conference, 1943
5:36   Atlantic Wall
27:56 Desmond O'Neill 28:46 French francs
31:00 The big departure
38:53 The provisional government of the French Republic
45:38 Omaha Beach
3:20    Sword Beach
57:57   Juno Beach
01:03:24 General Bernard Montgomery
01:09:55 Charles de Gaulle
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01:24:08 Winston Churchill
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