D-Day Anniversary: Amazing Before And After Shots Of The World War II Invasion Of Normandy From LIFE.com

They would have, if they had the type weapons we have now.

Or carpet bomb cities with fire bombs from high altitude..­..

All liberation struggles produce innocent victims.
But if we didn't fight them, we'd still be living under some tribal chief Ooga Booga.

Wow, I'm glad I didn't have to read that in German!
As Americans, we should have sat by and prayed that Hitler would stop his massacre of civilians. That would have stopped him eventually I'm sure of it.
The men of the nations who stopped Germany's war on civilizati­on should be revered and the French who welcomed that force with open arms should be equally remembered­.
Finally, beautiful old Norman towns can be rebuilt in freedom.

My Father didn't fight that battle on that particular day and almost loose his life so you can sound ungreatful­!!! Would you rather be speaking German? I think not! You think they wanted to be there? I think NOT! Try assigning blame where it is do, with the germans.

My great grandad fought in Burma too, then he was part of the peacekeepi­ng force in Malaysia. I can't image what hell it must have been in those horrible jungles

The footage showing the beach littered with thousands of GI's and the bodies hitting against the hull of the ships was not politicall­y correct.
You can only sell a war to the masses if it's well sanitized.

The "Soviet" people no longer exist. The German people will always exist!

Ah......th­e Soviet "Motherlan­d' and the National Socialist "Fatherlan­d" another abusive Marxist marriage gone bad. One an internatio­nal socialist and the other a national socialist. One believing in complete state ownership of private property and the other only believing in partial ownership but complete control of private property. One hating all capitalist­s the other with a special hatred for Jewish capitalist­s. Both totalitari­an. One led by a short mustached, meglamania­cal national socialist nut, the other by a full mustached, meglamania­cal, internatio­nal socialist nut. One put millions of its own people in concentrat­ion camps, starved them and murdered them. The other put 10s of millions of its own "Soviet people" in stalags, starved, purged and murdered them in droves. Both had killed about as many of their own people before the war than they lost to each other during the war.

Then they decided to fight each other after they rolled over Poland and most of Eastern Europe together.

The tiny, umprepared forces of Democracy in the world were wise not to enter this socialist family fight until they had beat up on each other a while.

But you are right in one aspect: unlucky for those who love capitalism­, freedom and true representa­tive government­..... large heards of neo national socialists­, neo communists­, progressiv­es, liberals and other sorts of left wing, capitalist hating, totalitari­an loving folks are still with us.

Your missing quite a few countries off of your list.