'Full
Victory — **thing Else': Iconic D-Day Images for Its
70th Anniversary
On June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops
landed 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
D-Day, or Operation Neptune, was the first move in
Operation Overlord, the codename for the Battle of **rmandy. Nine thousand Allied soldiers were
killed or wounded, 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.
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