“We’ll start the war from right here.” (Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Utah Beach, June 6-1944).
By June 8-1944, the total number of Allied troops killed two days previous, on D-Day, totaled more than 4,000. Of those four thousand, 2,501 were Americans, mostly killed on Omaha Beach in the first wave at 6:30 a.m., while other Americans were killed scaling the cliffs of Utah. I shared this a few years ago, […]
