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The Beaches of Normandy

History Daily

The storming of the beaches of Normandy has gone down as one of the most important days in history. Men from England, America and Canada marched on to the beach in France to take it back from Nazi Germany with no idea what their fate would be. One soldier with the 626th Engineer Light Equipment Company, Tom Jensen, said of that day, “They didn’t tell us anything we didn’t need to know. Heck, some of the guys on our ship thought we were headed to Japan, not Normandy. Just months earlier, we were either in high school or working odd jobs. We weren’t soldiers, at least not yet.”