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Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day (after the military term), it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France , and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front .
Valley of Death (Polish: Dolina Śmierci) in Fordon, Bydgoszcz, northern Poland, is a site of Nazi German mass murder committed at the beginning of World War II and a mass grave of 1,200–1,400 Poles and Jews murdered in October and November 1939 by the local German Selbstschutz and the Gestapo.
Ubehebe Crater in Springtime. Geologists call the resulting large steam explosions hydrovolcanic or phreatic eruption and the pits created are known as maars.Ubehebe was the last and largest in a series of similar eruptions in the immediate area (its eruption exceeded the tensile strength of the bedrock by 10 times).
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The Valley of Death, an area of poisonous volcanic gas near the Kikhpinych volcano in Russia; The Valley of Death, an area of poisonous volcanic gas near the Tangkuban Perahu volcano in Indonesia; The Valley of Death, a nickname for the Korangal Valley in Afghanistan where 54 U.S. servicemen died during the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Around 200 veterans attended this year’s D-Day event in Normandy, the youngest in their 90s and some over 100. ... France, on June 5, 2024. (Rafael Yaghobzadeh for NBC News) ... helped turn the ...
English soldier Ken Hay was trapped behind German lines and captured while on night patrol in 1944, days after joining the Allied invasion of Normandy, a turning point in World War Two. The ambush ...
A tsunami hitting a coastline. This article lists notable tsunamis, which are sorted by the date and location that they occurred.. Because of seismic and volcanic activity associated with tectonic plate boundaries along the Pacific Ring of Fire, tsunamis occur most frequently in the Pacific Ocean, [1] but are a worldwide natural phenomenon.