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POPSLIFE MAGAZINE PHOTOS: D-Day and Operation Overlord The Face of the Liberator Photo #4 U.S. Army Lt. Kelso C. Horne of the Airborne Infantry poses in Normandy, France , on Aug. 14, 1944. "Most people only think of D-Day on the big anniversaries, like the 40th or 50th," Horne said at age 81. "It comes to my mind every June 6th and on a lot of other days, too." Horne died in 2000 at the age of 88. Photo: Bob Landry. Aug 14, 1944
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POPSLIFE MAGAZINE PHOTOS: WWII: D-Day and Operation Overlord Ike and Monty Review the Troops Before D-Day Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, commander-in-chief of Allied Forces in Europe, reviews troops shortly before the June 6, 1944 Normandy invasion, while British Gen. Bernard Montgomery looks on. The invasion of Northwest Europe by the Allies, code-named Operation Overlord, saw more than 2 million troops land on French soil between D-Day and late August; hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides, and tens of thousands of deaths; and constituted one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history. Photo: Frank Scherschel./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images May 01, 1944
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POPS D-Day In Context Perhaps that's because it would draw parallels between those who stormed the coast of France in 1944 and those who are fighting now -- and winning -- a war against radical Islam. Unlike those who braved their way into Hitler's Fortress Europe, the young Americans fighting today's battles reap few accolades from the potentates of the press or the liberal "leadership" in Washington. A recent editorial warned about Iraq: "Don't look now, but the U.S.-backed government and army may be winning the war." And it took to task those who comprise "the 'this-war-is-lost' caucus." The victories over al-Qaida and the Shiite militias in Iraq, against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden's remnant in Afghanistan, have been won by U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardsmen and Marines -- and the new allies in these countries. Those who landed on the beaches of Normandy 64 years ago were American heroes. So are those who serve today.
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POPSD-Day June 6th 1944 - Sixty eight years ago today Allied land forces that saw combat in Normandy on D-Day itself came from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Substantial Free French and Polish forces also participated in the battle after the assault phase, and there were also contingents from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, the Netherlands, and Norway. Other Allied nations participated in the naval and air forces. - sixty eight years ago today.
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