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We Owe American Security to Those Boys on the Beaches of Normandy

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We Owe American Security to Those Boys on the Beaches of Normandy
American troops land on the beaches of Normandy, France, during the historic D-Day, on June 6, 1944, during World War II. STF/Imperial War Museum/AFP via Getty Images
Victor Davis Hanson
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This is a lightly edited transcript of a June 8 segment of the Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words podcast.
June 6, 2026, was the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II that took place on June 6, 1944. It was the largest amphibious invasion since Xerxes’s invasion of Greece. It might have been much larger, even.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”
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