Juno, Gold, Omaha, Utah, and Sword

I thought about writing a nice long post, but thought that there is already so many nice books, post, and movies on this subject that it would be silly to go with a long post. So if D-Day interests you, (which it should), I recommend the book "On To Berlin" by Gen. James M. Gavin, who fought in WWII. It is a must read.

-Operation Overlord-

Today, June 6th, 1944, the Allies spearheaded the invasion of Europe. This invasion was a major turning point in the war; we had been preparing for this invasion for sometime.

We had learned a lot from our landings in Operation Torch, (the invasion of Africa); we had tested ourselves in the Italian Campaign, and now we would attempt the biggest invasion in history: more then 160,000 troops would participate in the landings and by August more then 3 million troops would be across the English Channel. This truly was a large invasion force.

Let us remember these brave men today, as so many of these old-soldiers are forgotten these days.

-A thought-

I have seen the original footage of the invasion. I have always been puzzled as to why the soldiers were weighed down with all that unnecessary gear. I mean come on, give the soldier some food rations, ammo, an M1 Garrand (or a Tommy gun) and the needed things to breech the enemies positions and forget all the unnecessary baggage.

-Another Way of Looking At D-Day-

Just like the Allies, we all have our own D-Day. Prehaps you've just given your life to Jesus. That alone can be a D-Day. Prehaps you have given up an addiction. Or prehaps you have decided not to be a lazy bum anymore. :) Whatever it is, if its extremely hard to go through, you can call it your D-Day.

Until Then,
Jon