Friday marks the 70th Anniversary of the largest seaborne invasion in history — more than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft were sent to infiltrate the heavily German-fortified French coastline.
D-Day, or Operation Neptune, was the first move in Operation Overlord, the codename for the Battle of **rmandy. Nine thousand Allied soldiers were killed or wounded, but 100,000 went on to march against the Axis forces — in what would eventually lead to the successful Allied invasion of western Europe occupied by Nazi Germany. Read more...