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- About 11,000 Allied aircraft, 7,000 ships and boats, and thousands of other vehicles were involved.
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1 day ago · Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. This map from UPI shows the 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coastline that was divided into five sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. American troops attacked ...
52 minutes ago · An American flag is unfurled, as a band of pipers play during an early morning ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Utah Beach, in Normandy, northwestern France today. Get live ...
19 hours ago · FILE - American soldiers and supplies arrive on the shore of the French coast of German-occupied Normandy during the Allied D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 in World War II. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944. Of those, 73,000 were from the United States, 83,000 from Britain and Canada.
1 day ago · Many deaths on all sides. A total of 4,414 Allied troops were killed on D-day itself, including 2,501 Americans. More than 5,000 were wounded. In the ensuing Battle of Normandy, 73,000 Allied ...
1 day ago · On D-Day, 25 doomed men on a small ship never made it to Omaha Beach. Eighty years ago, four men from a tiny Kansas high school and 21 others died in an inferno at Normandy. Three were just ...
3 days ago · Definition. Omaha Beach was one of two beaches attacked by the US armed forces on D-Day, 6 June 1944. Strong German defences on the bluff overlooking the beach made this area the most difficult of the Normandy landings, but by the end of the day, the beachhead was secure, albeit with more casualties than at any other D-Day beach.
1 day ago · 9:50 a.m.: U.S. destroyers move in close to Omaha Beach and begin shelling German targets. 10:15 a.m.: Allied naval shells destroy vital German artillery at Colleville-sur-Mer and Pointe de la Percee.
