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  2. Normandy landings - Wikipedia

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    Situation map for 24:00, 6 June 1944. The Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history, with nearly 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. [196] Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on D-Day, [9] with 875,000 men disembarking by the end of June. [197]

  3. File:Normandy Breakout Map, operations 25 July to 15 August ...

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    English: Normandy Breakout Map, operations 25 July to 15 August 1944 Based on map Normandybreakout.jpg - number 64 from The Department of History at the United States Military Academy Date 20 February 2024

  4. American airborne landings in Normandy - Wikipedia

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    American airborne landings in Normandy were a series of military operations carried by the United States as part of Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy by the Allies on June 6, 1944, during World War II.

  5. Operation Overlord - Wikipedia

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    Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune).

  6. Gold Beach - Wikipedia

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    Gold, commonly known as Gold Beach, was the code name for one of the five areas of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during the Second World War. Gold, the central of the five areas, was located between Port-en-Bessin on the west and the Lieu-dit La Rivière in Ver-sur-Mer on the east.

  7. Looking back at the beaches of Normandy on D-Day: June 6, 1944

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    On June 6, 1944, the largest seaborne invasion in history took place as Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, beginning the end of WWII. ... June 6, 1944, with the storming of France's ...

  8. Hillman Fortress - Wikipedia

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    The bunker complex, designated as Hill 61 and codenamed Hillman by the British, was attacked on 6 June 1944 by the Suffolk Regiment and the fortress finally surrendered the following morning. [1] The delay in taking the bunker complex has been cited as a reason for the Allies not completing their major D-Day objective of taking Caen .

  9. List of Allied forces in the Normandy campaign - Wikipedia

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    British infantry the 3rd Monmouthshire Regiment aboard Sherman tanks near Argentan, 21 August 1944 Men of the British 22nd Independent Parachute Company, 6th Airborne Division being briefed for the invasion, 4–5 June 1944 Canadian chaplain conducting a funeral service in the Normandy bridgehead, 16 July 1944 American troops on board a LCT, ready to ride across the English Channel to France ...