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06-05-2014, 02:31 PM
'Full Victory — **thing Else': Iconic D-Day Images for Its 70th Anniversary
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On June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed (http://www.army.mil/d-day/) on the beaches of **rmandy in the coordinated invasion of occupied France k**wn as D-Day.
Friday marks the 70th anniversary of the largest seaborne invasion in history — more than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft were sent to infiltrate the heavily German-fortified French coastline.
See also: War and Peace: 10 Photos Commemorating 100 Years Since WWI (http://mashable.com/2014/04/08/world-war-1-photos/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
D-Day, or Operation Neptune, was the first move in Operation Overlord (https://www.britannica.com/dday/article-9400218), the codename for the Battle of **rmandy. Nine thousand Allied soldiers were killed or wounded (http://www.army.mil/d-day/), but 100,000 went on to march against the Axis forces — in what would eventually lead to the successful Allied invasion of western Europe occupied by Nazi Germany. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/05/d-day-invasion-70/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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On June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed (http://www.army.mil/d-day/) on the beaches of **rmandy in the coordinated invasion of occupied France k**wn as D-Day.
Friday marks the 70th anniversary of the largest seaborne invasion in history — more than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft were sent to infiltrate the heavily German-fortified French coastline.
See also: War and Peace: 10 Photos Commemorating 100 Years Since WWI (http://mashable.com/2014/04/08/world-war-1-photos/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
D-Day, or Operation Neptune, was the first move in Operation Overlord (https://www.britannica.com/dday/article-9400218), the codename for the Battle of **rmandy. Nine thousand Allied soldiers were killed or wounded (http://www.army.mil/d-day/), but 100,000 went on to march against the Axis forces — in what would eventually lead to the successful Allied invasion of western Europe occupied by Nazi Germany. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/05/d-day-invasion-70/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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