What was it like to land on D-Day?

Well I was not a soldier on D-day but my Grandfather was and he wrote a very detailed diary before he was killed. “When we landed at Dog White, we were met with heavy mortar and machine gun fire.The doors of our landing craft opened and instantly machine guns rained down on us killing and wounding many. read more

There may be thoughts that because of the power of the opening scene that D-Day was exactly like that and it was the same over the whole area of landing, and therefore D-Day was the worst that war can be. read more

The Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history, with nearly 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on D-Day, with 875,000 men disembarking by the end of June. read more

Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. read more