“On the peak of Nazi energy in 1942, Germany and its allies managed massive parts of Europe and North Africa,” recounted Chief Electronics Technician Corey Morris, assigned to NSA Souda Bay. “Nonetheless, by 1944, Hitler had suffered a pivotal loss at Stalingrad and Allied navy leaders believed {that a} full-scale invasion of Western Europe might unfold the German military skinny and switch the tide of the battle for good.”
D-Day, additionally identified by its code identify, Operation Neptune, is taken into account the biggest amphibious warfare operation in historical past and occurred alongside a 50-mile stretch of the Normandy, France coast in 1944.
Capt. Odin J. Klug, commanding officer, NSA Souda Bay, was a visitor speaker on the remembrance ceremony.
“D-Day was not only a huge logistical operation that required the synchronization of the whole Allied power, it was additionally a unified show of the braveness and the psychological and bodily toughness of the tens of 1000’s of Allied troops—British, Canadian and American—who helped flip the tide of World Warfare II,” stated Klug. “We must always by no means stop to be grateful for individuals who gave their lives on this trigger, whereas others fought for years throughout World Warfare II in an effort to give us a world the place freedom endures.”
