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  2. Juno Beach - Wikipedia

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    Unknown, likely heavy. Juno and or Juno Beach was one of five beaches of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 during the Second World War. The beach spanned from Courseulles, a village just east of the British beach Gold, to Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, and just west of the British beach Sword.

  3. TD Bank (United States) - Wikipedia

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    TD Bank, N.A. is an American national bank and the United States subsidiary of the multinational TD Bank Group.It operates primarily across the East Coast, in 15 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. TD Bank is the seventh-largest U.S. bank by deposits and the 10th largest bank in the United States by total assets, resulting from a series of several mergers and acquisitions.

  4. Arromanches-les-Bains - Wikipedia

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    0–55 m (0–180 ft) (avg. 15 m or 49 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Arromanches-les-Bains (French pronunciation: [aʁɔmɑ̃ʃ le bɛ̃] ⓘ; or simply Arromanches) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western ...

  5. Mulberry harbours - Wikipedia

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    Beach. The Mulberry harbours were two temporary portable harbours developed by the British Admiralty and War Office during the Second World War to facilitate the rapid offloading of cargo onto beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. They were designed in 1942 then built in under a year in great secrecy; within hours of the ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Chinatown, Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    February 12, 2010. The Chinese American experience has been documented at the Museum of Chinese in America in Manhattan's Chinatown since 1980. Manhattan 's Chinatown[ a ] is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west.

  8. Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial - Wikipedia

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    Grave markers at the cemetery. The cemetery is located on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach (one of the landing beaches of the Normandy Invasion) and the English Channel.It covers 172.5 acres, and contains the remains of 9,388 American military dead, most of whom were killed during the invasion of Normandy and ensuing military operations in World War II.

  9. 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, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.