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On June 6, 1944, the most important mixed navy drive ever assembled the D–Day invasion of the seashores of Normandy, France, throughout World Conflict II. Allied troopers scrambled ashore as planes attacked German positions, and paratroopers gained a foothold additional inland. Complete casualties of the D–Day invasion was estimated at 10,000 useless or wounded. These have been the Calgary Herald entrance pages on June 6 and June 7, 1944.
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In 1969, on the twenty fifth anniversary of D-Day, the Herald’s journal printed a collection of particular pages commemorating the occasion.
On the fiftieth anniversary of D-Day, the Calgary Herald printed this opinion piece.
The Nationwide Put up pages within the Calgary Herald, and in Postmedia newspapers throughout Canada, honored veterans and their sacrifices on the seventy fifth anniversary of D-Day in 2019.
The next items by Calgary author Chris Nelson, wanting again on D-Day, have been printed in 2020.
