Sixty Third Anniversary of D Day

The Forty Ninth State Fellows in the University Honors College remind everyone that sixty three years ago today nearly 156,000 assault troops landed by air and sea in Normandy, beginning the eventual liberation of France and Western Europe from Nazi tyranny.
The June 6, 1944 landings on the British beaches at Sword and Gold and on the American beaches at Omaha and Utah, with the Canadians at Juno, were preceded by parachute and glider drops of troops from the British 6th Airborne on the western flank and the American 82nd and 101st on the eastern flank. Included among the British, Canadian and American assault troops were French commandos on the ground and Polish and Czech fighter pilots in the air.

The D Day invasion remains the most complex military operations ever mounted.

Click here for the first broadcast of news of the attack from the BBC.
Click here for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's announcement of the D Day invasion.