D Day 55 years ago today

[gaunty]

Doesn't time fly when you are having fun, it's so easy to forget the debt civilisation owes to those who gave so much of themselves.

[Algy Braic-Summing]

Point taken, agreed with etc. But wasn't it 56 years ago?????

[Meeb]

Guys, the evacuation of the allied forces from the beaches of Northern France took place 60 years ago last Sunday.

[Wiley]

I’m pretty sure gaunty was referring to the blokes going the other way four years later, almost to the day, with a serious bit of payback on their minds, Meeb.
And yes, Algy B, you’re quite right, it was June 6th 1944, not 1945. But I suspect gaunty wasn’t having problems with remembering whether it was ‘44 or ‘45, but if he’s anything like me, what year this is now!