The Story Behind The Place: Normandy American Cemetery

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces came ashore along the Normandy coast in the largest seaborne invasion in history. Many never made it home. More than 9,000 Americans are buried here overlooking the beaches where it began — not to celebrate the victory, but to mark what it took to win it. Every cross. Every name. Every family forever changed by a day that began before dawn.