Picture of the Day: June 6

Posted June 5, 2008, 9:34 pm in
Credit Growing Bolder

As dawn broke on June 6, 1944, Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France in the largest single-day beach invasion in history - an invasion that began the liberataton of Western Europe from Nazi occupation. 57,000 U.S. Army troops waded ashore on Omaha Beach and nearly 3,000 lost their lives that day. Very few veterans of Omaha Beach are alive today. Overall, World War II veterans are dying at a rate of about 1,000 a day. Of the 16.1 million servicemen and women who participated in that war, less than 2.5 million survive. If you know one, say "thanks."