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  2. American airborne landings in Normandy - Wikipedia

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    Two pre-dawn glider landings, missions "Chicago" (101st) and "Detroit" (82nd), each by 52 CG-4 Waco gliders, landed anti-tank guns and support troops for each division. The missions took off while the parachute landings were in progress and followed them by two hours, landing at about 0400, 2 hours before dawn.

  3. Normandy landings - Wikipedia

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    The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day (after the military term ), it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.

  4. Operation Overlord - Wikipedia

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    The Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history, with nearly 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers. [127] The opening of another front in western Europe was a tremendous psychological blow for Germany's military, who feared a repetition of the two-front war of World War I.

  5. Factbox-What you need to know about the D-Day 80th ... - AOL

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    World leaders and veterans gather in Normandy on Thursday to mark the 80th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 D-Day landings, when more than 150,000 Allied soldiers invaded France in a major turning ...

  6. List of Allied convoys during World War II by region - Wikipedia

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    Spithead to Normandy: June 1944 June 1944 EWL Isle of Wight to France June 1944 June 1944 mainly landings ships and landing craft EWM Isle of Wight to France September 1944 October 1944 motor transport convoys EWP Isle of Wight to France personnel convoys EXP June 1944 October 1944 invasion convoys FBC Baie de la Seine to Bristol Channel: June 1944

  7. Factbox-D-Day: What to expect from 80th anniversary in Normandy

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    Veterans and world leaders will meet in Normandy, northwestern France, on June 6 to mark the 80th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings, when more than 150,000 Allied soldiers invaded France to ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Omaha Beach - Wikipedia

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    Landings here were necessary to link the British landings to the east at Gold with the American landing to the west at Utah, thus providing a continuous lodgement on the Normandy coast of the Baie de Seine (Bay of the Seine river).

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