There more I learn of what happened during and immediately after D-Day, the nmore I stand in awe of the men who pulled it off. Not just the planners who imagined and coordinated the largest amphibious landing the world has ever seen, but also the twenty something private who had the balls to step off the landing craft into the surf.

Improbabilities happen in any war. I saw strange things myself. WWII, though, is filled with the oddest things happening at the oddest times. Like the calm that came over Normandy in the middle of a storm. Just in time to let the landing take place, then the storm picked up again.