Normandy, France Awe and Gratitude

D-Day was the first successful opposed landing on French territory—the country was held by the Nazis—in over 800 years.
Today I finally got the chance to visit this shrine to bravery and resolve on this one Day, June 6th,1944.

More Americans died in the invasion
 then the whole Iraq war

D-Day was the extraordinary day in 1944 when 156,000 allied forces—including 34,000 American troops—landed on the beaches of France, giving allied troops a key toehold on the continent, and hastening the end of the Second World War.