2,500 soldiers died – June 6, 1944

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Spend 15 minutes with this amazing video looking at the military and civilian deaths from World War II

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CNN: He got to witness ‘The Longest Day’

Cornelius Ryan was a 24-year-old war correspondent when he had a chance to see a defining moment in the defining event of the 20th century — the Allied landings on the coast of France to retake France and bring down Hitler.

Recalling those five hours off the coast, watching the struggle on the beaches, he remembered “the magnitude of the thing, the vastness. I felt so inadequate to describe it.”