The June 6 marks 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings, the largest air, airborne and naval invasion in history, one of the turning points in the World War II that helped defeat Nazi Germany. Among the victims of this war operation was a US army paratrooper Andrej Babjak who was born in Žbince, Eastern Slovakia, and left Czechoslovakia in 1939. As local historian Pavol Horňák explains, Babjak was a member of the American airborne division that participated in D-Day where he died. To mark 80 years since his death, the U.S. Embassy in Slovakia in cooperation with the Museum of Emigration from Slovakia to North America will unveiled a memorial on Friday, June 14.
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Patrícia Polakovičová, Photo: TASR
