As the United States and many other nations are pausing to remember the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday, June 6, CBN News takes a look back at that heroic day where thousands of men gave their lives to defeat an enemy who sought to enslave the entire world.
On the 40th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, on June 6, 1984, President Ronald Reagan, himself a World War II veteran, gave a speech on the very spot where Allied soldiers stormed the gates of hell and were victorious.
Although Reagan didn’t see combat, he did have a front-row seat. He was a member of Jack Warner’s First Motion Picture Unit for the Army Air Corps. From that vantage point, he saw all of the unedited combat footage come from every corner of the world, including footage of the American Army liberating the Nazi death camps at the end of the war.
Forty years ago, as the leader of the free world, President Reagan addressed World War II veterans and world leaders gathered at the site of the U.S. Ranger Monument at Pointe du Hoc, France.
“The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right,
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