(Finished May 26th, 2024) Part 3 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.

35) The Glenn Miller Orchestra "In The Mood":

36) Jo Stafford "I'll Be Seeing You":

37) Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters "Don't Fence Me In":

38) The Andrew Sisters "The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company C":

This song is about the Vietnam War and it points out some interesting contrasts with World War 2. 39) Paul Hardcastle "19 (Destruction Mix)":

A different kind, and ongoing war, is occurring in this song. 40) Bruce Springsteen "Death To My Hometown":

This song is about D-Day, the day many people call the longest day. 41) Iron Maiden "The Longest Day":

From "Hamilton" 42) Lin Manuel-Miranda, et. al "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)":

43) T.G. Sheppard "War Is Hell On The Homefront Too":

44) Ben Folds "Army":

45) Plastic Ono Band "Give Peace A Chance":

46) Johnny Horton "The Battle of New Orleans":

From World War 1. 47) "Long Long Way To Tipperary":

Wow, this is such a powerful version of this song. 48) U2 "Bullet The Blue Sky":

49) Pink Floyd "The Dogs of War":

50) "The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down":

51) Jimmy Dorsey "Blueberry Hill":

I have 33 Sabaton World War 2 songs to share with you, I will start here with three. All of these World War 2 related songs are by Sabaton. 

52) "Rise of Evil":

 53) "The Final Solution":

54) "Wehrmacht":

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