"[Today] marks 70 years since D-Day and World War II’s all-out invasion of a mainland Europe controlled by the armies of Adolf Hitler. June 6, 1944 was an epic, go-for-broke day with Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy under withering German fire. Now those American “boys” who went ashore at Omaha beach, Utah beach, who parachuted behind the lines, are pushing 90. Many are already gone. There is a kind of last salute that comes with this anniversary. This hour On Point: remembering a battle like no other, D-Day, 70 years on."
-Tom Ashbrook via WBUR
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