D-Day. At the time, uncertainty.
June 6, 1944 – D-Day – Storming Fortress Europe – Allied Landings In France.
– June 6, 1944 – Mutual Coverage of D-Day landings – Gordon Skene Sound Collection –
Certainly the date of June 6th isn’t the sole property of 1944. A lot has happened since then. But  as time passes and the numbers of people involved or bearing witness to that day in history begin to fade, it’s more of a tribute to our parents and grand-parents (and Great–Grandparents) who went through a time of great uncertainty and upheaval and lived to talk about it.
For one thing, we really just don’t fight wars like that anymore, and haven’t since the early days of Vietnam. The enemy has changed and has become less defined. If World War 1 signaled the end of the “proper war”, World War 2 signaled the end of the clearly defined one, and it is unlikely it will ever return to the “rules of engagement” era so strictly adhered to then.
The one element that hasn’t changed is the aftermath. The physically and emotionally damaged are always left in vast numbers – whose aftereffects go on for decades, and always will as long as wars are fought in any conventional or non-conventional way. There are doubtless still veterans of World War 2 coming to grips with events from going-on almost 80 years ago.
Maybe one day we’ll look at D-Day and June 6th as a distant antiquity as many already have – it will be less and less observed as have battles of previous wars faded from our collective consciousness.
But for now, here is a one-hour extract from June 6, 1944 as presented by Mutual Broadcasting and the BBC, from 7:30 until 9:00 in the morning. People in the U.S. Â hearing the news as they were waking up, and all attention was focused on the coast of France.
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What truly differentiates WW2 for Americans (leastwise, those Americans who resent the subsequent abdication of sworn duty) is it was the last war our congress actually “declared”, per their solemn oaths to uphold the Constitution of the United States.
Very, very true.