Today that momentous day officially becomes another year distant in history.

The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan is a fine book on the subject — and is particularly good in its “books on tape” version.

As an aside, two of the decisive machines of that day were the Higgins boat (officially, the Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP) and the assault glider.

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God bless all those thousands of brave men.