Remember D-Day - ABC 33/40 - Birmingham News, Weather, Sports

On this day 68 years ago, some 73,000 Americans stormed onto the beaches of Normandy, France.

It was D-Day, the allied invasion of Nazi occupied Europe.

Three months after the invasion, the northern part of France was free and the invasion force moved on to Germany.

The Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces was General Dwight Eisenhower, who because President Eisenhower.