Travel: Americans make a patriotic pilgrimage to Normandy

Our American gaze is turning again to the French coastline of Normandy.
June 6 marks the 75th anniversary of the greatest wartime sea invasion in history. In what was the crucial turning point of World War II in Europe, about 156,000 Allied troops — almost all American, English and Canadian — invaded on a single day five Normandy beaches to begin driving  German occupiers out of conquered territory and start the end of the most significant and terrible conflict of the 20th centu