The Brave Patriots Who Helped Save Europe from Hitler

Last summer, I was fortunate to participate in a trip round Western Europe, exploring some of the critical sites associated with the Second World War.

The trip included a stop at the Churchill war rooms in London and the Allied headquarters at Southwick House, where the date for D-Day was decided after two years of planning. From there, we journeyed across the channel by boat to Normandy, the 50-mile beach along the French coast, where on June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops, 12,000 aircraft, and 7,000 sea vessels embarked on their perilous mission to save Europe from Nazism.

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Madeleine Kearns

Madeleine Kearns is a former staff writer at National Review.

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Last summer, I was fortunate to participate in a trip round Western Europe, exploring some of the critical sites associated with the Second World War.

The trip included a stop at the Churchill war rooms in London and the Allied headquarters at Southwick House, where the date for D-Day was decided after two years of planning. From there, we journeyed across the channel by boat to Normandy, the 50-mile beach along the French coast, where on June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops, 12,000 aircraft, and 7,000 sea vessels embarked on their perilous mission to save Europe from Nazism.