Today (June 6), France will reflect on the 80th anniversary of the Battle Of Normandy, better known as D-Day. While the marine invasion by multinational Allied forces didn’t bring an end to World War II, it did signal the beginning of the end.
In December 1943, Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States was appointed to lead the Allied forces, which were then considering several landing sites in France, including Normandy, Brittany, the Cotentin Peninsula and Calais.
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