Today we remember D-Day, the beginning of the end of WWII in Europe. This PBS site has some remarkable facts about D-Day. I didn't know these:
* An invading army had not crossed the unpredictable, dangerous English Channel since 1688
* Louisiana entrepreneur Andrew Jackson Higgins first designed shallow-draft boats in the late 1920s to rescue Mississippi River flood victims.
* Captured Germans were sent to American prisoner of war camps at the rate of 30,000 POWs per month from D-Day until Christmas 1944. Thirty-three detention facilities were in Texas alone.
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