Seventy-five years ago on Thursday, Allied Forces began to win World War II in a definitive battle that would cost tens of thousands of lives in the costliest war ever fought.
Thursday’s milestone anniversary is reminding people all over the world of the importance of the D-Day landing at Normandy and the sacrifice and heroism at Omaha Beach.
One local family continues to learn and appreciate the sacrifice of one of its members who landed there June 6, 1944, served his unit with courage, and returned home to tell the tale.
Although she always knew that her uncle, Leonard “Dick” Trimpe, was one of four sons in their family who served in the war, Bev Rust and her husband, Tom, of Columbus, decided the time had come this year to see Normandy and the memorials in France for themselves.
For more on the D-Day 75th anniversary, see Thursday’s Republic.
