D-Day Anniversary brings spotlight onto Abilene, Kansas
A military invasion unlike any other happened 80 years ago this week. June 6th, 1944 was D-Day, also known as Operation Overlord.
It’s the stuff of movies. Historians refer to it as one of history’s most significant military operations when Allied forces invaded Normandy, France. It was a turning point in the victory against Nazi Germany.
The man credited for the success of the Allied Invasion, Dwight D. Eisenhower, is from Abilene, Kansas.