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The Normandy Landings — D-Day of Operation Overlord, 6 June 1944
At dawn on 6 June, seven thousand ships threw the Allies onto five beaches — Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword: the Atlantic Wall pierced in a day, and the hundred and seventy-seven Frenchmen of the Kieffer commando among them. (Editorial synthesis)
The Normandy Landings took place on 6 June 1944. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The Normandy Landings took place in Normandy. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The Normandy Landings ended in over a hundred and thirty-two thousand ground troops landed on the beaches. (source: Imperial War Museums)
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