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  2. American airborne landings in Normandy - Wikipedia

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    In 1995, following publication of D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, troop carrier historians, including veterans Lew Johnston (314th TCG), Michael Ingrisano Jr. (316th TCG), and former U.S. Marine Corps airlift planner Randolph Hils, attempted to open a dialog with Ambrose to correct errors they cited in D-Day, which ...

  3. Mission Elmira - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, Mission Elmira was the landing of a significant part of the 82nd Airborne Division’s glider train in Normandy on the evening of 6 June 1944 as part of Operation Neptune, the assault phase of Operation Overlord.

  4. 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

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

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    On June 6, 1944, the world was forever changed. World War II had already been raging around the globe for four years when the planning for Operation Neptune -- what we now know as "D-Day" -- began ...

  6. Mission Hackensack - Wikipedia

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    Mission Hackensack was one of several follow up landing and supply operations flown during the D-Day invasion (June 6, 1944–August 1944) [1] during World War II.It was the final glider assault of Operation Neptune into France that delivered the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment (GIR) to the 82nd Airborne Division shortly after daybreak on June 7.

  7. Operation Mallard - Wikipedia

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    Operation Mallard was the codename for an airborne forces operation, which was conducted by the British Army on 6 June 1944, as part of the Normandy landings during the Second World War. The objective was to airlift glider infantry of the 6th Airlanding Brigade and divisional troops to reinforce the 6th Airborne Division on the left flank of ...

  8. American airborne landings in Normandy order of battle

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    The American airborne landings in Normandy order of battle is a list of the units immediately available for combat on the Cotentin Peninsula between June 6, 1944, and June 15, 1944, during the American airborne landings in Normandy during World War II.

  9. Capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges - Wikipedia

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    The capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges (wrongly known as Operation Deadstick (which in fact was a specialized glider exercise), and in official documents as Operation Coup de Main) was an operation by airborne forces of the British Army that took place in the early hours of 6 June 1944 as part of the Normandy landings of the Second World War.