Event Education-Unsung Heroes of D-Day

Unsung Heroes of D-Day

by Mike Ellicott

On D-Day June 6, 1944, 156,000 soldiers from eight nations landed by air and sea along a 55-mile-wide swath of the Normandy Coast in Northwest France to begin the Liberation of Nazi Occupied Europe.  It was the beginning of the end of WWII on the European Continent.  Eleven months later, Nazi Germany ceased to exist.  Many of the participants - Eisenhower, Montgomery, Bradley - are household names.  This presentation will tell the story of less well known, but equally important, individuals including British General Frederick Morgan who conceived the original D-Day Plan, American LtCol Joel Couch, who trained the Army Air Force Pilots that dropped American Paratroops early on D-Day, and two Canadian Brothers, Majors Elliot and Charles Dalton, who led the assault on Juno Beach.  Learn their stories and the stories of many other Unsung Heros of D-Day.

Mike Ellicott retired as a Colonel after a 26-year career in the Army Corps of Engineers and he retired again 16 years later as the Vice Chancellor for Facilities Planning and Construction for the Texas Tech University System.  He now focuses on his love of WWII and Civil War history and leads, with his wife Marilyn, tours of the Normandy and Gettysburg Battlefields.  Marilyn and Mike live in Collierville, he is the Past President of the Friends of the Morton Museum in Collierville. 

Access will be through GoToWebinar.  Instructions and Connectivity Link will be forwarded via email to all registrants upon registration, six days prior and again 1 hour prior to the event.  Making the connection is quick and easy only requiring a computer and Internet connectivity from wherever you chose to watch the event. Your questions help drive the meetings, and we will be there to help each other.