{"id":2822,"date":"2012-06-06T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T02:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2012-06-04T12:18:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T10:18:32","slug":"d-day-68th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2012\/06\/d-day-68th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"D-Day 68th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder for everyone to stop today and take a moment to reflect on the events that happened 68 years ago today on the shores of Normandy in France. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capa-beach-of-normandy-D-Day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2823\" title=\"capa beach of normandy D-Day\" src=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capa-beach-of-normandy-D-Day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capa-beach-of-normandy-D-Day.jpg 459w, https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capa-beach-of-normandy-D-Day-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a>This is the day that the Allies opened up the long-awaited Second Front against Hitler&#8217;s Germany. \u00a0 The invasion took place along almost 50 miles of French coast using five named invasion beaches. \u00a0 From south to north the beaches were named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. \u00a0 The first days objectives were not reached over most of the front and in many places it would take weeks to reach objectives that were supposed to have been taken in the first hours. \u00a0 Below you can hear some of the veterans themselves describe their experiences.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CnhcMXoftp4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder for everyone to stop today and take a moment to reflect on the events that happened 68 years ago today on the shores of Normandy in France. \u00a0 This is the day that the Allies opened up&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2012\/06\/d-day-68th-anniversary\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,1225],"tags":[1020,1032,261,1033,1018,553,338,552,73],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaigns-operations","category-modern-global-conflict","tag-american-military-history","tag-british-military-history","tag-d-day","tag-french-military-history","tag-german-military-history","tag-invasion","tag-nazis","tag-western-front","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}