Mickey pictured above with wife Dee.

The Allies began the Invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1945. By the end of the day approximately 156,000 Allied troops had successfully stormed Normandy’s beaches. More than 4,000 Allied troops were killed and thousands more wounded or missing.

Pictured above are Ted and Beattie.

On June 6, 1944, the Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history, landing on the beaches of Normandy. Beattie was a young man at the time, living in his homeland of Ireland. I remember a photo of Beattie hanging in his home in Fort Walton Beach, FL. Beattie is at the helm of a sailboat and behind him is the Normandy Invasion Fleet.