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ANNIVERSARY
D DAY
MOV IE SPECIA L
Saving
private
ryan
thursday, june 6
rated-r
free admission
1:30 PM & 6 pm
little hall theater
Commands may wish use the
1:30 PM showing as a PME
opportunity for their Marines
and Sailors.
for more information, call
QUANTICOMCCS
@MCCSQUANTICO
MCCSQUANTICO
quantico.usmc-mccs.org
703.784.2638
June 6, 1944
After almost five years of war and following many months of planning, preparation and training, the Allied
forces under the overall command of American General Dwight D. Eisenhower, landed on the beaches of Hitler’s
“Fortress Europe”.
Paratroopers and glider borne infantry were the first to touch French soil in the early hours of the morning on
the eastern and western flanks of the invasion area. Several hours later as the sun began to rise, an enormous
armada of ships disembarked its cargo of fighting men onto five beaches across a 50-mile front of the Normandy
coastline.
By the day’s end, 156,000 troops had been landed and a tentative but strengthening beachhead
established. A door in Hitler’s much-vaunted “Atlantic Wall” had been well and truly kicked open.
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