OMAHA BEACH, France - - A silent moment on France's most evocative shore, a thoughtful stroll over once-bloodied Normandy cliffs, a mug of cider with a Frenchman who remembers hearing the D-Day bombers as a scrawny child, hiding in his cellar.
Keeping the memory of the D-Day invasion alive doesn't have to be about costly tours and pricey museums with mock exhibits. Simply being there, on the wide beaches still rimmed with ruined pillboxes and among the gravestones, may make a more lasting impression.
President Barack Obama will pay homage to D-Day's heroes and its fallen next month, 65 years after their epochal military undertaking helped lead to the Nazis' demise.
The operation was the largest single-day amphibious invasion of all time, with 160000 troops landing on June 6, 1944.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bernard Law Montgomery Omar Bradley Trafford Leigh-Mallory Arthur Tedder Miles Dempsey Bertram Ramsay
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