No one I knew who was on the beaches at Normandy (on either side) ever referred to it as “holy.” In fact, one or two of them made note of the absence of any sane God at the time.
Let’s not make it what it wasn’t. It was a brutal full frontal attack that was won with brute force. There wasn’t much choice. But I don’t think God had anything to do with it.
I know they didn’t think it was Holy. I was talking about the act, the act of sacrificing yourself for others. The British, Canadian and American soldiers believed they were doing this for their families, their countrymen and their country. If they had only been thinking of themselves, a few years in a jail cell for refusing orders would probably have been safer.
They were acting in a manner exactly as Jesus did for us.