The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.

It was the start of victory for the Allies in WW2 and of course Germany and Japan surrendered next year in 1945.

You can read more here https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-10-things-you-need-to-know-about-d-day ... Basically the biggest ever sea invasion

So yesterday and today there many parades and celebrations in Normandy in France with soldiers who are still alive all in their 90s and 100s to honour their fallen comrades in arms.

The church now that is Abbotshall Church and was REbuilt in 1788, the original was built in 1650. It makes me feel young when I mention dates like that!