The Winged Angels exhibit at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force honors WWII flight nurses who evacuated wounded ...

There were 4,414 confirmed Allied deaths on that day and German loses ... beaches This map from UPI shows the 50-mile stretch ...

Thanks to Normandy's unpredictable weather ... Although there were heavy Allied casualties, this invasion turned the tide in the war and helped lead to the fall of Nazi Germany.