June 6th, 1944   Justin Holcomb Jun 06, 2016

 

Today marks the 72nd anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, France and the thousands of Americans that sacrificed everything to save the world from tyranny.  
Operation Overlord, also known as D-Day, was an assault mounted by U.S., British, and Canadian forces along the northern coast of France in order to remove Adolf Hitler's foothold on Europe.  
As General Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote in a letter to the invading American troops, the mission proved to be more than extraordinary: