Fort Worth Business Press, June 2, 2014 Vol. 26, No. 21 | Page 4

June 2 - 8, 2014 | fwbusinesspress.com

BY THE NUMBERS: CITY GROWTH
The six cities with the largest numeric population increase from July 1,
2012, to July 1, 2013, are listed below. Five Texas cities made the top 15 list,
including Fort Worth at No. 13 and Dallas at No. 10.

The D-Day Connection
rendering courtesy of N3D Land Films and 3D Entertainment Distribution

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Numeric Increase: 61,440

2013 Total Population: 8,405,837

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D-Day: Normandy 1944 takes viewers back to June 6, 1944, through the use of CGI, animated maps and 3-D.

Numeric Increase: 35,202

2013 Total Population: 2,195,914

3
Numeric Increase: 31,525

2013 Total Population: 3,884,307

4
Numeric Increase: 25,378

2013 Total Population: 1,409,019

5
Numeric Increase: 24,843

2013 Total Population: 1,513,367

6
Numeric Increase: 20,993

2013 Total Population: 885,400

10
Numeric Increase: 15,976

2013 Total Population: 1,257,676

13
Numeric Increase: 14,643

2013 Total Population: 792,727

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, Vintage 2013 Population Estimates

Release Date: May 2014

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y 92-year-old father remembers it, 70 years ago. Before the
assault began, this displaced
young man from Oklahoma stood on
the British coast and all he could see was
a steady, unbroken horizon of ships. My
father, in the Army Air Corps, had heard
rumors. But seeing the scale of what was
about to happen was an image imprinted
on his memory to this day.
It was D-Day, June 6, 1944, the largest seaborne invasion in history and
the key to toppling a regime that grows
in vileness the more you learn about
them. That day nearly 5,000 landing
and assault craft, 289 escort vessels and
277 minesweepers crossed the English
Channel with 875,000 soldiers hitting
the beach by the end of June. It was a
logistical nightmare and a huge gamble.
Rick Atkinson’s The Guns At Last Light:
The War In Western Europe, 1944-1945
(2013) describes it:
Nautical twilight arrived in Normandy on June 6 at 5:16 a.m., when
the ascending sun was twelve degrees
below the eastern horizon. For the next
forty-two minutes, until sunrise at 5:58,
the dawning day revealed what enemy
radar had not. To a German soldier near
Vierville, the fleet materialized “like a
gigantic town” afloat, while a French boy
peering from his window in Grandcamp
saw “more ships than sea.”
If you’ve read Atkinson’s book or seen
the brutally graphic opening of Steven
Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan you know
June 6, 1944, was a chaotic, murderous
day for those storming the beach.
As At