AUDIO: Bubba Bo Emotionally Commemorates D-Day On 99.3

It has been 75 years since Allied forces stormed the beaches at Normandy.

A LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division (the Big Red One) wading onto the Fox Green section of Omaha Beach (Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France) on the morning of June 6, 1944. American soldiers encountered the newly formed German 352nd Division when landing. During the initial landing two-thirds of Company E became casualties. Photo by Chief Photographer's Mate (CPHoM) Robert F. Sargent, National Archives.

(Lawrenceburg, Ind.) - On June 6, 1944, 160,000 allied troops who landed on the beach at Normady, setting in motion the end of Hitler's Third Reich. 

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the pivotal point in World War II. More than 10,000 allied troops were casualties of history's largest seaborne invasion. Of 4,414 deaths confirmed by the National D-Day Memorial, 2,499 were Americans.

Eagle Country 99.3's Bubba Bo paid a brief but emotional tribute to those who stormed the beach during his morning show on the radio station Thursday. His tribute followed the playing of Johnny Cash's "Ragged Old Flag."

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