The Longest Day - 80 Years Later

80 years ago today, the greatest amphibious operation the world has ever seen headed for the shores of occupied France.

Thanks to the courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle of the airmen, sailors and soldiers from the United States, Britain, Canada, Poland and other allied nations, the Nazis stranglehold on continental Europe was broken.  Much more hard fighting would be needed to bring the war to an end, but the beginning of the end took place on June 6, 1944.