D-Day, The Cost of Defending Liberty

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President Biden during the D-Day commemoration near Normandy, France

Today marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

On this day in 1944 the combined forces of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand landed on the beaches of Normandy, dealing a fatal blow to Nazi Germany. During the landings Allied forces were met by intense resistance from Nazi forces and would spend the following weeks securing the territory around the beachhead. The D-Day landing, known as “Operation Overlord”, resulted in tens of thousands of Allied casualties and remains the largest amphibious operation in history.