
Scaled-down D-Day Commemoration Ceremonies This Year
On this Day, 76 years ago, on 6 June 1944, the biggest ever amphibious landing operations, popularly known as D-Day, took place in Normandy, France, and gave the Western Allies the foothold they needed to begin the fight against Nazi Germany on the Western Front in WWII. The whole plan was code-named ‘Operation Overlord’.
Beginning here, the Western Allies slowly pushed back the Nazi occupiers out of France and eventually