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No, the reason she used "storming the beaches of Normandy" and not idk, "the beaches of Da Nang", is because Normandy is associated with the beginning of a turn in fortunes of that conflict which ultimately led to Allied victory. Nobody would fucking care about Normandy if the Nazis won.