D-Day Playing Cards Piatnik

D-Day Playing Cards Piatnik

Since 1824, the Wiener Spielkartenfabrik Ferd. Piatnik & Sons has been making quality playing cards in Vienna, Austria in the EU. D-Day - the greatest ever sea-born invasion, is commemorated in these 75th Anniversary Collectors’ playing cards featuring, on to the fighting men and machines, legendary commanders and French patriots of the Resistance includes dramatic action shots of the Battle of Normandy. The photographs in this pack are all from the Imperial War Museum in London in the UK and offer a balance between arms and services. Their excellence is a tribute to the skill and bravery of official photographers. Many became casualties.

Le débarquement - le 6 juin, 1944 - la plus grande invasion marine jamais vue, est commémorée dans ces cartes a jouer du 75ème anniversaire, où figurent, sur toutes les cartes, des photographies classiques de l’Imperial War Museum. Elles représentent des scènes d’action spectaculaires, les débarquements et les batailles de Normandie, l’armure et les soldats; et aussi les patriotes héroïques français de la Résistance.

D-Day, landing in Normandy
June 6, 1944, the date when the Allies, soldiers from Canada, France, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, invaded Western Europe in World War II. Allied troops began landing in Normandy during WWII and with it the long-planned opening of a western front for the anti-Hitler coalition. D-Day was the start of Operation Overlord, the landing itself was codenamed Operation Neptune.

These D-Day playing cards Piatnik have 55 poker size playing cards made of cardboard with a standard index in 2 corners of the cards and include 1 Joker + 2 D-Day info cards.

D-Day 75th Anniversary Commemorative Playing Cards Piatnik
© Wiener Spielkartenfabrik Ferd. Piatnik & Sons
Piatnik playing cards since 1824
Piatnik No. 1157
Made in Austria