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D-day photos 1944
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On June 6th, it will be the 70th anniversary of the successful 1944 Allied invasion of France.
Several operations were combined to carry out the largest amphibious invasion in history - over 160,000 troops landed on June 6th, assisted by over 5,000 ships, aerial bombardment, gliders and paratroopers.
Thousands of soldiers lost their lives on those beaches that day - many thousands more would follow as the invasion succeeded and troops began to push German forces eastward, eventually leading to the Allied victory in 1945.
U.S. Soldiers march through a southern English coastal town, en route to board landing ships for the invasion of France, June 1944.
Jeeps are being loaded onto landing craft - in background, larger trucks and ducks are being loaded, June 1944.
British landing craft, preparing to sail the English Channel and invade Nazi-occupied France. These landing craft landed U.S. troops on Omaha Beach.
General Eisenhower gives the order of the Day. "Full victory - nothing else" to paratroopers in England on June 6, 1944, just before they board their airplanes.
U.S. troops disembark from a landing vehicle on Utah Beach on the coast of Normandy, France in June of 1944.
An 88mm shell explodes on Utah Beach. In the foreground, American soldiers protect themselves from enemy fire.
An American officer and a French Resistance fighter are seen engaged in a street battle with Germans.
Peter Smoothy, 86, who was a leading writer in the Royal Navy on D-Day visits the grave of a fallen comrade on June 6, 2010 in Bayeux, France. Across Normandy several hundred of the surviving veterans of the Normandy campaign are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings which eventually led to the Allied liberation of France in 1944.
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