The first village liberated by the Americans was St. Mere Eglise. This little village is much as it was seventy years ago. The film ‘The Longest Day’ starring Robert Mitchum and John Wayne featured the story that unfolded here. Pfc John Steele made history when he, in the dark hours before daylight on June 6 […]
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Utah Beach
West of Omaha Beach lies Utah Beach where a far less bloody battle took place here on D-Day. Utah Beach would serve as the port of entry for allied forces. Vast numbers of personnel, materiel, jeeps and tanks began their trek to Berlin here.
Normandy
Seventy years ago today, allied forces successfully cracked Hitler’s Atlantic Wall at Normandy. Specially trained Army Rangers landed near a point of land called Pointe du Hoc where their mission was to dispatch the 88 mm gun that was positioned on the cliff high above the sea. The Rangers achieved their objective in scaling the […]