D-day Cermoney

The day on which any combat attack or operation is launched is called D-Day according to the military.

The D- Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air and ocean forces of the Allied forces in what’s known as the largest amphibious irruption in military history. The operation, given the codename Overlord, delivered five nonmilitary assault divisions to the strands of Normandy,France.General Montgomery presented his plans for the D- Day levees to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the other Allied commanders, and the British Chiefs of Staff. A World War II Navy stager who watched the American flag being raised at Iwo Jima failed while en route to France to attend an event commemorating D- Day, a stagers associationsaid.Robert Persichiti, 102, failed Friday, said Richard Steward, chairman of Honor Flight Rochester, a stagers association to whichMr. Persichiti belonged.Mr. Persichiti, of Fairport,N.Y., was one of a abating number of his generation still attending D- Day observances.