Washington Post: A stirring video presentation of World War II and the deaths it caused
Seventy-one years ago today the U.S. Army established a temporary cemetery in Europe. It was needed to bury thousands of soldiers who were killed in the D-Day invasion that had started two days earlier on the beaches of France. The assault was a daring effort to help defeat the Nazis that would ultimately lead to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans.
The number of deaths worldwide in World War II — at least 60 million, according to the National World War II Museum — have not been seen in any conflict since. The cemetery in France eventually became the The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, one of many battlefield cemeteries at which American troops were buried overseas.
WNU Editor: The Soviet numbers are staggering.
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