Today is the 81st anniversary of D-Day, the day the largest armada ever assembled in one place put ashore at Normandy three armies, one Brit, one Canadian, and one American. Let's don't forget that the night before dozens of planes dropped thousands of airborne troops behind German lines.
The weather was far from ideal, the coast was fortified, and the conjunction of the moon, the tides, etc. sort of forced them to go anyway, so they did. Ike rolled the dice, took the chance, and won.
It was no cakewalk. A lot of brave boys died that day, and kept dying all the way to Berlin. Meanwhile, the Russians were moving in from the East, pushing across Poland and what was to become East Germany.
D-Day marked, at long last, the very "beginning of the end" which 7 months earlier Churchill correctly warned us we had not yet reached.
