Today is the 72nd Anniversary of D-Day. On 6 June 1944 over 160,000 Allied troops landed on the Normandy coastline to kick off the Land component of Operation Overlord. Alwyn Collison has been tweeting the events of WW II as they occurred – sort of a today in WW II retroactive live tweeting – and you can see the D-Day as it happened tweets here. The US Army’s D-Day site, includes multi-media (where I got the video below), a list of Medal of Honor awardees, the US and Allied Divisions involved, and a discussion of the Normandy coast, the beaches chosen for the landing, and how the Airborne assault and beach landings occurred.