In response to the 75th Anniversary barf-festival commemorating the "D-Day" invasion of Normandy and the "liberation" of Europe from the big bad Germans (who would have returned to Germany on their own had the Allies simply accepted Hitler's pleas to stop the war) - - we are republishing our popular D-Day piece.
'D' DAY = DEVIL'S DAY?
Operation "Overlord"
6th Hour, 6th Day, 6th Month
By Mike King
The 'Lord' in "Operation Overlord"
1943-1944 / 5400 ALLIED TROOPS DIE IN LIVE-FIRE PRACTICE DRILLS IN PREPARATION FOR D-DAY
The Daily Mail (UK) / June 1, 2019Denied a hero's death: How more Allied troops died during live-fire D-Day training in Britain than those killed storming the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944
Historian Peter Caddick-Adams reveals in Sand and Steel: A New History of D-Day that more men died in preparation for the assaults, in training exercises and live drills, than at the Normandy beach