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Adi Day Reflection.

This is Dr. Jim Denison's The Daily Article Podcast for Thursday, June 6th, 2019.

The noise was deafening.

The black smoke and the accurate smell of Chordite, which was coming from the battleships firing the big shells.

They are the outstanding things in my memory coming from that day.

That's how former British Royal Marine, Les Budding, now 93, remembers what history calls D-Day.

On June 6th, 1944, more than 5,000 ships, 11,000 warplanes, and over 150,000 servicemen took part in the largest air, land,

and sea operation ever undertaken. When it was over, the Allied forces had suffered nearly

10,000 casualties. 4,414 were confirmed dead. But a foothold against Nazi Germany had been

established in Europe.

Normandy is a region in northern France.

It was selected the year before as the location for an Allied invasion under General Dwight D. Eisenhower's command.

Codenamed Operation Overlord, the invasion was preceded by a massive deception campaign.

Known as Operation Fortitude, this campaign involved a dummy army commanded

by Lieutenant General George Patton that pretended to target Calais to the east of Normandy.

German spy planes flying over southeast England reported the buildup of a massive invasion force,

but the regiments of tanks and landcraft were mostly inflatable decoys.

Double agents in phony Allied radio traffic

intended for the Germans confirmed the Calais strategy. The Allies also dropped hundreds of dummy

paratroopers well inland of the eventual targets along the Normandy beaches. As a result,

Hitler was convinced that the actual invasion was merely a diversion. He was asleep when the

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