June 6th, 1944 Allied forces launch the D-Day invasion of Normandy – Chapter Thirty Seven

     The news about D-Day really didn’t come out in the papers here in America until nearly a week after the fact, but when the news broke everyone on the home-front devoured the particulars.  The announcement that over 100,000 men had landed on the beaches of Normandy in the first 48 hours was equivalent to over 100 times Gibbon’s total population.  It’s hard to imagine, but over 5,000 ships were involved in the initial landing, and tons of equipment and men were carried on shore via landing crafts.  The early June news about D-Day still didn’t take away from the June successes for the Navy.  The battle of the Philippine Sea caused the Japanese to lose 3 aircraft carriers and 400 planes.