On this day, 77 years ago, June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of Normandy began.
D-Day, as it is commonly known, saw approximately 160, 000 Allied troops in 5,000 landing craft land on the French coast.
By end of day the Allies had landed on four of the five beaches, all now famously known as Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword.
After the cauldron at Stalingrad, which freed the city in February 1943, D-Day ranks high.
The two most significant events to defeat Germany in World War II.
On May 31, 1941 the Germans bombed Dublin’s North Strand.
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A young man, just left school, was on his way to join the closest Premonstratensian monastery on D-Day. The bombing stopped that. A short time later he joined instead the Dominicans of the Northern (Paris) province, becoming provincial in the 1990s. He died only last year. Francis Marneffe.
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