Rainy Day Reads

I think everyone is familiar with D-Day, the military operation in which the Allies crossed the English Channel, landing on the beaches of Normandy and taking the Nazis by surprise. This all started on June 6th 1944. More than 5,000 ships and landing vessels, 50,000 vehicles and 11,000 airplanes crossed the channel headed for French beaches with codenames such as Omaha, Utah and Sword. On the first day alone 4,900 allied soldiers died and more followed since.   9,386 American soldiers are buried on the American churchyard at Colleville-sur-Mer, while almost 5,000 British, Canadian, Australian and South African men are buried on the British graveyard at Bayeux.   The site of Omaha beach includes the Monument du Débarquement (a monument to the Normandy landings) and the Musée-Mémorial d’Omaha Beach which contains tanks, dioramas and photograpghs. Nearby the American cemetery lies on a hilltop overlooking the site of the landing on Omaha Beach. (For practical information...