Remembering D-Day

D-Day, June 6, 1944

By Sullivan Vande Voort

                     In 1939, Poland was in shock- Hitler’s army, the Nazis, invaded them. In 1941, America was in shock- Japan had bombed one of the U.S.’s primary naval bases. America was then thrust into World War II. The Nazis continued invading neighboring countries. In 1944, America was fed up. They planned two attacks on Nazi occupied France. They only planned one real attack, though. It was called “Operation Overlord”. Hitler knew one was fake, but not the right one. On June 6, 1944, an attack was launched on Normandy Beach, France. One was also launched about 150 miles northeast of Normandy beach. If you asked Hitler, that is the real attack. But it wasn’t.

                    While Normandy was bombarded with paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st airborne, the other “attack” zone was bombarded with dummy paratroopers.The american soldiers worked their way up the beach, destroying gun batteries and such. The attack was successful. D-Day is known as the “beginning of the end of world war two.'' Thank you for reading! Please write your own D-Day article and send it to us. It might be featured on our blog! Here is a video of my class interviewing Doug Rozendaal, the pilot of a C-47 ( “That’s all, Brother”) that is going back to Normandy for the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

It is important to remember the brave soldiers who fought in World War two.