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D-Day June 6, 1944

By June 6th 1944, the Allies had landed 150,000 men in Normandy. The five beaches were secure and the troops were pushing inland.

[History on the Net] The total number of casualties that occurred during Operation Overlord, from June 6 (the date of D-Day) to August 30 (when German forces retreated across the Seine) was over 425,000 Allied and German troops. This figure includes over 209,000 Allied casualties:

Nearly 37,000 dead among the ground forces
16,714 deaths among the Allied air forces.
Of the Allied casualties, 83,045 were from 21st Army Group (British, Canadian and Polish ground forces) 125,847 from the US ground forces.

And Colin, this is why our flag is important.

Operation Overlord

Darkest Hour - Winston Churchill

What a great movie.  Gary Oldman's performance is sensational as Winston Churchill.

If it weren't for Churchill's leadership, our entire plant would look totally different today. Churchill led Britain to victory during the Second World War. At one point when the survivorship of England looked doomed, he appealed to Franklin Roosevelt to help and was turned down because of our Neutrality Acts.

The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. The acts were largely repealed in 1941, in the face of German submarine attacks on U.S. vessels and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. [Wikipedia]

He led the Conservative Party for fifteen years from 1940 to 1955. His spirit, patriotism and vision and going directly to the people who he served reminds me of our president, Donald Trump.