"Just off the coast, 130,000 soldiers were poised and ready to come ashore."
"The men that died on the beach that day, they were all facing Germany. You could look at them up and down that afternoon, they were facing forward, and not backwards."
"By June 1944, the Allies were ready to launch an invasion dubbed Operation Overlord."
"The hero of D-Day that you've probably never heard of."
"June 6th, 1944, a date that has become forever ingrained in the minds of the Western world."
"Looking back on June 6th and the days that followed, we tend to take for granted the success of the D-Day landings."
"Thousands of Americans lost their lives on the first day of the invasion, but the effort put 155,000 Allied troops onto the beaches and into the French countryside."
"By Nightfall of June 6, 1944, it was clear that the American Landings had succeeded."
"This is exactly the scene that would have greeted soldiers heading down towards the south coast ready for the D-Day landings."
"What is fantastic about his role in the longest day was it is actually fighting in Normandy on D-Day himself."
"Certainly the ultimate goal is to take this airplane back to D-Day, to the coast of France in 2019 for the 75th anniversary of the invasion."
"It was a sight to see, on the horizon seeing all these ships. They look like little dots getting bigger and bigger and then merging into Normandy Beach."
"On June 6, 1944, at dawn, the Allies landed in Normandy. Operation Overlord was underway."
"I was awarded the Légion d'Honneur for taking the Canadian Spitfire wing 144 into Normandy on D-Day."
"In the process, 18,300 British and American Crews and Pilots were killed in the 3-month run-up to D-Day."
"As Kurt said, there is no D-Day if the Germans are there."
"We talk about war a lot... think about the soldiers who storm D-Day."
"Throughout Omar Bradley's life, memory and ceremony would draw him back to D-day and Omaha Beach, to the people who would never forget what he did there."
"D-Day celebrates Papa John Singh who has done so much all those wickets is out in the center and appropriately so."
"Welcome everybody to the latest history hit live... his best-selling and award-winning book about D-Day, the Battle of Normandy, one of the most pivotal days in history."
"D-Day was postponed to ensure sufficient landing craft, illustrating the critical importance of ship production."
"The way D-day works is it's this huge interlocking puzzle of individually tailored solutions to a huge number of problems."
"The day June 6, 1944, when the allied forces under their commander General Eisenhower landed on the northern coast of France."
"Under the command of General Eisenhower, allied naval forces supported by strong air forces began landing allied armies this morning on the northern coast of France."
"America's victory over Nazism was made possible by the success of the ambitious D-Day invasion."
"The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England to go and free Europe in the war."
"It's not all about what happened on June the 6th, it's about what happened in the preparation for those landings."
"The 6th of June 1944, one of the most infamous dates of modern history."
"The landing of Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy remains a haunting example."
"If we think of D-Day, we picture the soldiers more than any other image of this event."
"The scale of D-Day is absolutely epic. It's the most extraordinary thing that's ever been undertaken in history."
"Ahead are the white sands of Omaha Beach, watched over by fortresses of concrete and steel."
"D-Day was the greatest combined action of all time."
"At the end of June the 6th, D-Day is an incredibly successful amphibious operation."
"The Battle of Normandy, also known as D-Day, started on June the 6th, 1944, and was the beginning of the major invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II."
"June the 6th, 1944, one of the major turning points in contemporary history."
"The 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings is fast approaching."
"Did you know that the Normandy Landings consisted of not just one beach like Omaha Beach but also other beaches called Sword, Juno, Gold, and Utah?"
"The liberating assault fell upon the coast of France, an immense Armada of upwards of 4,000 ships."
"They have landed." "Who?" I asked stupidly. "The Allies, in Normandy."
"After years of work, a whole load of bloodshed, and the snares of the British Military and intelligence community, SOE hopes that D-Day will be its moment."
"The months leading up to June 1944 saw the assembly and mobilization of the largest invasion force in history."
"Without the glider pilot regiment and their targeted operations, the German counter-attack could have been catastrophic during the D-Day landings."
"By the end of D-Day, the Allies had successfully landed on five key beaches along the Normandy Coast."
"The turning point in the war was an event known as D-Day."
"Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944, dawn D-Day, the Navy laid down a barrage that was heard round the world."
"Operation Overlord had commenced... Hitler's Fortress Europe was breached on that opening day."
"Operation Overlord is to date the greatest amphibious invasion in history, it marks the beginning of the liberation of France after four years of Nazi occupation."
"The success of D-Day depended on his performance."
"Leading up to the D-Day invasion of Normandy, P-38s accounted for almost 90 percent of the aerial reconnaissance photos taken of the battle space."
"Welcome to Normandy where 79 years ago to the day, 34,000 American soldiers landed at 6:30am, kicking off the most ambitious military landing in history."
"Allied naval forces supported by strong air forces began landing allied armies this morning on the northern coast of France."