{"id":58104,"date":"2018-06-06T10:40:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T15:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/?p=58104"},"modified":"2018-06-06T10:40:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T15:40:24","slug":"d-day-june-6-1944-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/06\/d-day-june-6-1944-6\/","title":{"rendered":"D-Day, June 6, 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was seventy four years ago on June 6, 1944, that 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we will accept nothing less than full victory.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"D-Day 6\/6\/44\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uPU4p7UQOtU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon a great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was seventy four years ago on June 6, 1944, that 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we will accept nothing less than full victory.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d More than 5,000&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-58104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politically-incorrect","wpcat-75-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe0C4-f7a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58105,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58104\/revisions\/58105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58104"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=58104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}