Remembering D-Day, as a new war rages in Europe

Two military re-enactors look on as 280 paratroopers take part in a parachute drop onto fields at Sannerville, France.

2024-05-30  1260  困难

Of the more than 150,000 Allied troops who arrived in Normandy on June 6th 1944, 9,000 were killed or wounded within the first 24 hours. D-Day (which stands simply for day) or Jour j (as it came to be known in France) was a turning-point in the Allied campaign to push back Nazis on the Western Front, liberate France and defeat Hitler’s Germany in 1945.

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