June 5, 2019
The Union
‘A chance to heal’: Veterans return to Normandy 75 years later, honor the fallen at D-Day
PICAUVILLE, France — At dawn on June 6, 1944, a fleet of almost 5,000 ships and 11,000 airplanes, transporting 156,000 men, approached a 22-mile-long section of the coast of Normandy.