In association with the Imperial War Museum, this remarkable colle. On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops including 14,000 Canadians descended on Normandy, France to break through Hitler’s ‘Fortress Europe’, and ultimately win the war. T oday is the historical day 14,000 Canadians stormed Juno Beach 76 years ago. In the column, she mused on the difficulty for those who weren’t alive on D-Day to imagine the gravity of that moment: “It’s hard for us today to realize how electrifying the news of the D-Day invasion was on the home front, how dreadful it would have been if the invasion had failed. Read 2 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Historica Canada marked last year’s 75th anniversary of D-Day by creating a Heritage Minute. This bestowed McFeatters with an appreciation for the bravado on display that day and through the remainder of the war. He also talked about the grit, bravery and determination of the young Allied soldiers as they struggled to regroup and head up the beaches dodging staccato bursts of deadly German fire,” McFeatters wrote in a column for The News. He witnessed “the horror of watching men laden with heavy packs and weapons drowning because they couldn’t swim in the frigid, churning water. It turned out to be the biggest and most important Allied amphibious operation of World War II. An American soldier wades through water under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire to reach the beach on the Normandy coast of France, June 6, 1944.
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