Editor’s note- The following article was published in the June 6, 1969, edition of The Hamilton Herald-News on the 25th anniversary of D-Day and is reprinted on the 75th.
It was a quarter of a century ago, June 6, 1944, when the Allied forces launched the most awesome array of land, sea and air power ever known to mankind against the beaches of Normandy on the coast of France.
This was D-Day. And fo…