(Finished May 17th, 2024) Part 2 of 80+ Songs In Honor of the 80th Anniversary of D-Day on June 6th

Hello,

This blog series is inspired by the 107 year old man going back to France to partake in the 80th D-Day anniversary festivities. His name is Reynolds Tomter, he was a merchant marine during World War 2.

That got me thinking about how this year is the 80th anniversary of D-Day and that I should have a series of blogs about the best 80+ songs about war in general but specifically World War 2. (You know kinda like a Sabaton listening party.) However as I start working on this blog series I realized it might be a lot harder than I thought it would be. However once I did a lot of search and discovered Sabaton I have more than 85 songs. I'm going to share them all with you. War songs from all eras but mostly focusing on the Greatest Generation and World War 2.

From Wikipedia:

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.

Planning for the operation began in 1943. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception, codenamed Operation Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings. The weather on the day selected for D-Day was not ideal, and the operation had to be delayed 24 hours; a further postponement would have meant a delay of at least two weeks, as the planners had requirements for the phase of the moon, the tides, and time of day, that meant only a few days each month were deemed suitable. Adolf Hitler placed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in command of German forces and developing fortifications along the Atlantic Wall in anticipation of an invasion. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt placed Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower in command of Allied forces.

18) The Andrews Sisters "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy":

19) Glenn Miller "Tuxedo Junction":

20) Billy Joel "Goodnight Saigon":

21) The Chicks "Travelin' Soldier":

22) The Cranberries "Zombie":

23) The Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter":

24) Bing Crosby "I'll Be Home For Christmas":

25) The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra "The Great Escape":

26) Johnny Horton "Sink The Bismarck":

27) Glenn Miller "American Patrol":

28) Leann Rimes "How Do I Live":

29) Pink Floyd "Vera":

30) Iron Maiden "Aces High":

31) Angels and Airwaves "The War":

32) Jimmy Dean "Pt 109":

33) Nena "99 Luftballons":

34) Dire Straits "Brothers In Arms":

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