Today marks the 73rd anniversary of D-Day, a turning point in World War II that marked the beginning of the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany. On June 6, 1944, in one of the largest amphibian invasions in military history, thousands of Allied troops fought on beaches in the Normandy region of France. At the time, General Dwight D. Eisenhower stated that the Allied forces would “accept nothing less than full victory.” In the days and weeks following the invasion, northern France was liberated and his words proved to be accurate.
