D-DAY June 6, 1944

[Pete-Rock]

Today but 65 years ago, June 6 1944, 6:30 in the morning operation Overlord, the landings of the allied troops in Normandy, France began to once and for all defeat Nazi Germany. More than 160.000 men landed in the Normandy that day, and many many thousands of them did not survive.

I - as a German - am so thankful for that operation. I dont have nothing to do with Germanys past, I was born 30 years after the end of the war - but this special day today reminds me that you cant take freedom for granted and that - without the courage of those many thousand young men, which I deeply admire - I would maybe still live in a country which is repressing its people and feeding them with their diabolic ideology. So I would like to say thank you to all those brave american, british, canadian and french men. They did not only free France or Holland, but they freed the Germans as well.

[damageinc]

65 years... I just wanna say god bless all the soldiers who fought there, they were all heroes.

[Poolzer]

We had an impressive ceremony on the USS Midway yesterday for it. Huge with Naval history, it was the 1st war where opposing Naval ships never saw each other and was the air support that turned the war for the US.

[King_Nothing]

RIP to all who helped enact this courageous battle, forever changing history. Never to be forgotten.

[Damageinc78]

I bet the ceremony on the midway was awesome. I just moved from san diego and have been on that ship. Very cool. I have a deep respect of history and what we are able to have today.

[slayerdiabolus]

I remember being in the UK in 2004 for the 60th anniversary.. It's definitely one of the most important events in History...

[clovnul]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWc4Jc9MRWs

[Yverish]

Great historical pictures of operation Overlord in high resolution HERE

[Pete-Rock]

Great historical pictures of operation Overlord in high resolution HERE

Wow thanks, those picturea are great.