today marks the 72nd year since the allied powers performed operation overlord, the largest landing operation in history on normandy, which then lead to the liberation of northwestern europe from german occupation, and aided in the eventual allied liberation of the western european front.
the following countries, as listed by wikipedia, contributed;
United Kingdom
United States
Canada
Australia
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Free France
Greece
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
and fought against german defenses including the atlantic wall
germany also made use of their
foreign legions to fight alongside their main army, which, as the name insists, were non-german volunteers or conscripts, which also consisted of french volunteers and conscripts (though i'm not sure myself if the french were used as well to defend normandy)
in the end, the allies faced over 10,000 casualties, alongside 4,414 dead (as listed by wikipedia). on the german side, 4,000 - 9,000 casualties (also listed by wikipedia)
so yeah, i haven't seen anything on TV or the news about it, except for a 6 PM show on AHC about it
