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American troops landed on Normandy beaches (north-west of France), to come as reinforcements during the historic D-Day, on June 6, 1944, during WW2. American troops supporting those already on the coast of Northern France, plunge into the surf and wade shoreward carrying equipment, on Utah Beach, Les Dunes de Madeleine, France. Bulldozers and other engineer equipment prepare the beach for the landing parties. STF/Imperial War Museum/AFP via Getty Images
This is a lightly edited transcript of a June 8 segment of the Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words podcast.
This past week was June 6, 2026. That’s the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II that took place on June 6, 1944. It was the largest amphibious invasion since Xerxes’ invasion of Greece. It might have been much larger, even.
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”
