The 65th Anniversary of D-Day on the Normandy Beaches
Saturday, June 6th 2009, marked the 65th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Allied troops departed England on planes and ships, made the trip across the English Channel and attacked the beaches of Normandy in an attempt to break through Hitler’s “Atlantic Wall” and break his grip on Europe. Some 215,000 Allied soldiers, and roughly as many Germans, were killed or wounded during D-Day and the ensuing nearly three months it took to secure the Allied capture of Normandy.
Commemoration events, from re-enactments to school concerts, were held in seaside towns and along the five landing beaches that stretch across 50 miles (80 kilometers) of Normandy coastline.
The big event was when Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the Canadian and British prime ministers and Prince Charles gathered for a ceremony amid the rows of white crosses and Stars of David at the American cemetery, which is U.S. territory. (AP)
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