Coalition landings need one political chief
Eisenhower's job.
A Western Front that met the Red Army on the Elbe in 1945 -- the campaign's geopolitical point.
NATO pilgrimage culture still uses these beaches as alliance liturgy.
Lessons
The day is not the campaign
Teach August.
Deception is a campaign
Fortitude.
Do not let film choose the beach
Juno exists.
Name the civilians
Liberation's bill.
Unresolved
Exact D-Day dead by beach
Still refined.
French civilian totals by commune
Local studies continue.
Air plan controversies
Historians still split.
How much Fortitude mattered
German records help; not a closed file.
Shifts
Western Front exists
The 1944 fact.
US army learns Europe
A bloody school.
French political return
De Gaulle's wager paid in Paris.
Amphibious staff gospel
Later Inchon readers.
Outlook
Anniversaries will outlive veterans
The 80th was already a historian's show.
Bagration may gain English hours
Slowly.
A closed campaign, an open metaphor
"D-Day" as a word to use more carefully.
Risk
closed campaign
Overlord ended in 1944. The live risk is memory distortion -- Omaha as the whole war -- and lazy "D-Day" metaphors.
"D-Day" became a metaphor that cheapens 6 June when applied to product launches.
Inchon's planners read the build-up problem in this file -- a Korean-relevant afterlife.