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D-Day

Written by  Team SCPA
D-Day

 

It is fitting that we remember D-Day...

Obama: D-Day vets' stories should remain 'seared' into memory

Short video:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/06/world/europe/d-day-commemoration/

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D-Day

Wikipedia

The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations on 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the Allied invasion of German-occupied western Europe, led to the restoration of the French Republic, and contributed to an Allied victory in the war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings

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D-Day - The Untold Story

BBC

Operation Overlord

It was on 6th June 1944 that Operation Overlord - the long anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-held Europe - went into action. What came to be known as the 'D-day landings' had been set in motion the day before with Operation Neptune, the naval aspect of Overlord. The scope of this massive naval action is aptly described by Cornelius Ryan...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/archaeology/marine_dday_underwater_01.shtml

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American Experience

PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/

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D-DAY Overlord History website

Excerpt from editorial

In 2003, then 16 years old, I had the idea to work on this website, in order to share my passion of long date: the Battle of Normandy. The Web seemed to me to be a privileged interface to learn and transmit, understand and discover. Thus I started to put on line the first pages of this website, helped for the design part by Axel Ronsin. The DDay-Overlord.com site represents today a true virtual memorial dedicated to those who fought and gave their life for an ideal which exceeded them….

…And the top of my 20 years, there remains to me still well way to traverse to place on this site all information concerning the D-Day, but such is my ambition, and such is the future of this site.

http://www.dday-overlord.com/eng/normandy_landing.htm

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D-Day Documentary
1.5 hr video compilation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIjmOcp_xhQ

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