D Day Special Sniper Elite 5 Part 8 (No Commentary)

On this day on June 6, 1944. 80 years ago
Operation overlord began at 7 in the morning. The Targets were Omaha and Utah beaches for the USA and Sword, Gold and Juno Beach for the British Empire. Some of the soldiers of the allied who participated in the beach landing were under the age of 18 nor did some have time to eat breakfast. Other soldiers were from the Governments in Exile (Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, The Netherlands and Greece) also participated in the beach landings. The Allies naval capacity included a majority of the British Fleet while the Americans also contributed to the assault. (Higgins landing craft boats, m4 Sherman’s although just 2 made it to Omaha and the USS Texas a ww1 dreadnought. In total there were 156,000 soldiers and 195,700 naval personnel. With the help of the Free French Resistance Movement under General Charles de Gaulle, Supreme Commander General Dwight David. Eisenhower, Lieutenant General Omar Nelson Bradley and Field Marshal General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery would pave the way to Free France from the Third Reich. Montgomery would lead a Canadian Force in Juno Beach which was heavily fortified, Omar Bradley would be First Commander of the Utah landings. Major General Matthew Ridgeway would lead the 82nd Airborne Division to Utah beach along with Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Teddy Roosevelts son would lead the 26th Infantry Regiment to Utah Beach while his son Quentin Roosevelt II along with Norman Daniel "Dutch" Cota, Sr. and reported Ernest Hemingway landed in Omaha the second heavily fortified beach.
General George Smith Patton, Jr. nicknamed “Old Blood and Guts” would provide reinforcements in July. This operation known as D-Day would lead to the events of liberating Paris which at the same time the last caliph of the Ottoman Empire passes away that same day this would finally free France from its shackles of the riech and bring France back into the fight ending the war in Europe. Decades later the soldiers who survived this day would go on to tell their stories even going as far as having actors portray famous leaders who stormed the beaches in movies such as The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan forever immortalizing them. For the veterans of D-Day alive or deceased I would like to thank you for your service, courage, dedication, heroism and sacrifice. You will forever be remembered.