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These are a few photos I took during my trip to visit the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia, and help to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of Operation Overlord. I've wanted to check it out for a while now and finally got the chance with perfect weather. Seeing it for the very first time and being on June 6th made it that much more meaningful. It was a day I will never forget.

The remarks were swiftly condemned on social media. The English historian, author and television presenter Simon Schama described them as a “special kind of loathsomeness: a blend of historical deafness, grotesque stupidity and comically ludicrous self-importance”.

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Second Lieutenant Walter Sidlowski kneels over the blanket covered body of an American soldier he had just helped rescue from the surf off Omaha Beach. Exhausted, Sidlowski appears motionless. His dripping wet uniform hugged by an inflated life belt, his face tortured and staring as though he is looking at someone but can’t find the words to speak.

Behind him the scene carries on, other men work to treat those that were saved while waves churn the waters of the English Channel beneath a vast invasion armada. Yet Sidlowski is still, caught in the moment by US Army Signal Corps photographer Walter Rosenblum in one of the most famous images of D-Day.

This image quickly became one of the most iconic of D-Day, used and reproduced by the thousands to represent the titanic struggle that started on the beaches of Northern France on June 6. The only complication to this representation is this photo was taken on June 7, D+1.

The D-Day display at the National Museum of the United States Army, shows an American G.I. resting his arm on the side of a Higgins boat as the rest of his platoon climb down a cargo net. The Higgins boat in this display actually landed at Utah beach on June 6, 1944.

Today, June 6, 2026, marks the 82nd anniversary of Operation Overlord. The so called, "Longest Day" when the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy and began the liberation of France.