06/08/2026
Two days ago marked the 82nd anniversary of the largest airborne and ocean invasion in history. Code Named: Operation Neptune saw over 300,000 sailors and soldiers from 13 different countries storm the beaches of Normandy with assistance from the French Resistance. Over the next 2 months over 2 million people stepped foot on the beaches in an effort to push back the N***s to Berlin, and marked a significant turn in the war, marking the end of 4 years of N**i occupation over Europe with the evacuation of Dunkirk almost exactly 4 years earlier.
Of those who fought, during the Battle of Normandy were 20,000 Americans, 11,000 British citizens, 5,000 Canadians and 2,000 Polish citizens.
Today you can visit the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer which is maintained by French citizens who maintain the graves of 9,388 Americans who are buried across 172 acres. French citizens have to wait on an extensive waiting list to be able to sponsor and clean the graves of people of all faiths. In the gardens is a memorial that bears the names of 1557 missing service members, including 489 from the sinking of the SS Leopoldville. In the cemetery there is a mass grave that holds the remains of 300 unidentified Americans, that has the epiteth "Here rests in honored glory a comrade in arms known but to God."
The wall reads:
Comrades in arms who's resting place is only known to God.
Here is recorded the names of Americans who gave their lives in the service of their country and who sleep in unknown graves.
This is their memorial.
The who Earth is their sepulcher.
