Semantics.
Were we not invading enemy occupied territory?
Okay. We’ll call it reconnaissance in force.
I though France had invited us.
Well yes D-Day was an ‘invasion’ to push Germany out of occupied Europe.
Ahh but did we have cross-border authority from the POTUS or State Dept? /s
Of course it was an invasion. The Normandy Invasion.
Remember the old movie, I think it was Longest Day, when the French guy who lived near the beach looked out and saw the ships coming. He became so excited and happy. He ran around shouting *l’invasion! l’invasion!*.
In the film The Longest Day Peter Lawford’s character utters one word after receiving notce by phone that the landing was on- “Invasion!” It’s not a big deal.
The D-Day Memorial calls it and invasion:
https://www.dday.org/history/d-day-the-invasion/overview.html
The US Army refers to it as an invasion:
http://www.army.mil/d-day/
The Kraut is a self-hating idiot.
Depends on the semantics of “invasion.” It matters whether the term is intended to reflect what happened militarily or politically. Militarily, it absolutely qualified as an “invasion.” From the point of view of the Nazis, it also qualified as one politically.
Invasion? No way! 6939 ships just sort of lost their way and ended up there. “Directions? You want me to go ashore and ask for directions? I’ll show you how to ask for directions!” And the rest is history.
Well....we call it the D-Day Invasion too.
Dont we?
Bzzzzzt! Nice try and thanks for playing.
The persistence of this error is astonishing.
1.) Operation Husky (Invasion of Sicily): 160,000 men.
2.) Operation Overlord (Invasion of Occupied Europe): 156,000 men.
Will they be able to cover the Muslim invasion of 2015/16 in their history books?
You can hear what they called as it happened
https://archive.org/details/Complete_Broadcast_Day_D-Day
What is the view fron the guy who ran it?