D-Day or more precisely Operation Overlord, was indeed a significant happening during WW11.
My Dad missed Operation Overlord, because he was by June 6th involved in the tail end of Operation Diadem while based with the 1st Canadian Division in Italy.
Better known as the breaking of the Gustav Line.
He truly was a “D-Day Dodger.”
https://youtu.be/O4hny_XRaw4
Lest We Forget.