06 juin 2004 06:37
D-Day euros
Isabelle Hontebeyrie
A total of 2,000 gold and 20,000 silver proof D-Day 60th Anniversary coins will be minted, but only the first 200 of each will be specially designated.
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The front of each coin depicts American, English and French soldiers arriving on the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944.
The back of each coin reads: D-DAY, LIBERTÉ, EGALITÉ, FRATERNITÉ ("liberty, equality, fraternity").
June 6 is the 60th anniversary of the 1944 attack along the Normandy coast by the United States and its World War II allies to liberate France and the rest of Europe from the Nazis.
Code named, Operation Overlord, it remains the world's largest air, land, and sea military operation.
It involved over 5,000 ships, 11,000 airplanes, and more than 150,000 allied service personnel.
Blogs talking about D-Day:
BLACKFIVE (The Sixtieth Anniversary of D-Day - in English) and MediaTIC (in French) both list blogs that have posted information on D-Day.
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