Operation Overlord Poem by Colin Ian Jeffery

Storm clouds of war
Hailed the oppression of the Nazis
Europe falling to German occupation
Adolf Hitler building his master race
Third Reich to last a thousand years.

Concentration camps, mass killing of civilians
People deemed through race, creed, and sexuality
Considered not good enough to live
Transported in trains, gassed with bodies burnt
Men, women, and children.

On D-Day allied troops
Stormed beaches and cliffs of Normandy
Freeing Europe with blood and lives
Making the world whole again
Defeating scourge of the Nazis.

Good that day defied evil
Thousands of allied troops dying
With bridgehead established
And march to Berlin begun
Ending with Hitler's death in his bunker.

Europe free from Nazi domination
Because of the sacrifices made
Storming beaches and cliffs of Normandy
And they shall never be forgot
Soldiers, sailors and airmail, who fell on D-Day.