D-Day veteran US Air Force (USAF) Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) (Ret) Wayne Chase, 15th Troop Carrier Squadron (TCS), pauses to reflect at the grave of an unknown Soldier in Normandy American Cemetery OMAHA Beach. France (FRA), after a D-Day ceremony. This year marks the 60th Anniversary of the Normandy invasion during World War II (WWII)
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: American Cemetery, Omaha Beach
State: Normandy
Country: France (FRA)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Wayne Clark, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
The Normandy landings on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 was the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foothold in Continental Europe. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 100,000 Soldiers to begin the slow, hard invasion in Europe, to defeat German troops.
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