Photo Gallery -- D-Day, 75 years ago
By DAVID COHEN
06/04/2019 10:25 PM EDT
Updated 06/04/2019 10:38 PM EDT
“As one officer said,” war correspondent Ernie Pyle wrote shortly after the invasion, “the only way to take a beach is to face it and keep going. It is costly at first but it’s the only way.” On June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched a massive invasion of the French coast at Normandy, opening a new front that helped defeat Nazi Germany and end the war in Europe within a year. “In the light of a couple of days of retrospection,” Pyle wrote from the front, “we sit and talk and call it a miracle that our men ever got on at all or were able to stay on.”
https://www.politico.com/gallery/2019/06/04/photos-d-day-75-years-later-003182?slide=21
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Troops begin to push inland into nearby French villages.
By DAVID COHEN
06/04/2019 10:25 PM EDT
Updated 06/04/2019 10:38 PM EDT
“As one officer said,” war correspondent Ernie Pyle wrote shortly after the invasion, “the only way to take a beach is to face it and keep going. It is costly at first but it’s the only way.” On June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched a massive invasion of the French coast at Normandy, opening a new front that helped defeat Nazi Germany and end the war in Europe within a year. “In the light of a couple of days of retrospection,” Pyle wrote from the front, “we sit and talk and call it a miracle that our men ever got on at all or were able to stay on.”
https://www.politico.com/gallery/2019/06/04/photos-d-day-75-years-later-003182?slide=21
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Troops begin to push inland into nearby French villages.
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