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2. 80 years ago, on the beaches of Normandy, WWII shifted ... - AOL

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   More than 156,000 Allied troops landed by sea on five beaches – code-named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword – or parachuted behind German defenses. Almost 4,500 of them were killed on D-Day ...

3. Looking back at the beaches of Normandy on D-Day: June ... - AOL

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   Looking back at the beaches of Normandy on D-Day: June 6, 1944. Kelsey Driscoll. Updated June 6, 2017 at 11:17 AM. On June 6, 1944, the world was forever changed.

4. 6th Beach Group - Wikipedia

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   The No. 6 Beach Group was a unit of the British Army during the Second World War. It was responsible for organising the units landing on Sword in the Normandy landings on D-Day , 6 June 1944. The Beach Group was tasked with establishing dumps of equipment and supplies including ammunition, petrol and vehicles.

5. Courseulles-sur-Mer - Wikipedia

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   More than 14,000 Canadians stormed the 8 kilometres (5 mi) stretch of a Lower Normandy Beach between Courseulles-sur-Mer and St. Aubin-sur-Mer on 6 June 1944. They were followed by 150,000 additional Canadian troops over the next few months, and throughout the summer of 1944 the Canadian military used the town’s port to unload upwards of 1,000 tons of material a day, for the first two weeks ...

6. Liberation Route Europe - Wikipedia

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   During Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious assault in history, Allied forces landed on five beaches along an 80-kilometre (50-mile) stretch of Normandy coast on D-Day. This operation marked the start of the liberation of Western Europe.

7. Hermanville-sur-Mer - Wikipedia

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   The beach of Hermanville, part of the area codenamed Sword, was one of the targets of Operation Overlord on 6 June 1944. The Cod German stronghold was located on the coast. A Norwegian destroyer, the HNoMS Svenner, sank in front of Hermanville. The sector at Hermanville was known as Queen Beach where elements of the British 3rd Division landed.