COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — When David Morgensen reflects on D-Day, one thing comes to mind.
“Ordinary men and women did extraordinary things," the Navy veteran said.
Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944, when 160,000 Allied troops, nearly half from the United States, landed on the beaches of Normandy and opened a second front against Nazi Germany.
It was a turning point of World War II and was the beginning of the end for Germany, but the price was high.
At least 4,414 troops were killed, about 2,500 Americans, and another 5,900 were listed as missing or wounded “as Allied forces broke through the Nazis’ heavily fortified ‘Atlantic Wall’ to secure a foothold in Northern Europe,” the Associated Press reported.
D-Day is considered one of the greatest military achievements in war.
Morgensen and fellow VFW Post 889 in Coeur d’Alene veterans Bob Martin and Paul Mahlow shared their thoughts on D-Day over a cup of coffee with The Press.
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