Today marks the 64th anniversary of the D-Day landings, on this day in 1944 the largest ever amphibious assault was underway, ships and landing craft carrying 130,000 men of the allied armies were about to penetrate Hitlers Atlantic Wall. Of the five invasion beaches the British assaulted code name Gold and Sword, between these two the Canadians took Juno and off to the west the Americans stormed Omaha and Utah. By the evening Allied forces had established a small beachhead, and from this point on men and supplies flooded in, the much anticipated second front had been opened. As we all know D-Day was a success and the beginning of the end of Hitlers third reich, but this opening offensive cost in the region of 10,000 casualties, young men, as the poem says, who really did give all their tomorrow's for our today's.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d...00/3499352.stm
http://www.ddaymuseum.co.uk/