D-Day
There were 9 battleships, 23 cruisers, 104 destroyers and 71 landing craft. Nearly 5,000 ships were involved. More than 160,000 fighting men from Great Britain, Canada and America landed on the shore.
Take a moment to remember those brave men fighting for our freedom and the men and women in our armed services who are continuing that fight today.
If you're searching for veteran records, go to the government archives, they are very accommodating in providing records of a family member. One person, who thought his father had been behind a desk as a clerk in the U.S. army, discovered he had been based in Austria and England and joined the British soldiers on the Normandy Beach!
Note: Before D-Day, April 28, 1944, over 700 American soldiers were killed while rehearsing on English shores for the battle on Normandy beaches. The disaster was hushed up for years.
