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D-Day in photos: See the historic landings
US paratroopers, carrying full equipment, walk in single file to board their transport - a DC-3 Dakota - for the invasion of Normandy on D-Day.
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American General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme commander for the 1944 cross-channel invasion of the continental mainland, giving orders to the paratroopers before the landing operations during the Second World War on June 6, 1944.
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US troops in landing craft, during the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944.
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US troops prepare to disembark from landing crafts during D-Day, June 6, 1944, after Allied forces stormed the Normandy beaches. D-Day is still one of the world's most gut-wrenching and consequential battles, as the Allied landing in Normandy led to the liberation of France which marked the turning point in the Western theater of World War II.
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Bombs are unloaded from a Norwegian merchant ship onto an American amphibious landing craft during the Invasion of Normandy by allied forces on June 6, 1944.
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US Assault Troops seen landing on Omaha beach during the Invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
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In the distance American Infantrymen are wading towards the beach on the Northern Coast of France during the D-Day Landings of June 6, 1944.
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American soldiers on an invasion craft during the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944.
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American troops helping their injured friends from a dinghy after the landing ship they were on was hit by enemy fire during the Allied invasion of France on D-Day on June 6, 1944.
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British commandos who landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944, set out to capture a Nazi gun site, which is protected by enemy snipers.
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