D Day

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- Date: June 6, 1944
- Troops: 150,000 Allied Forces http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/sfeatu...
- Vehicles: 30,000 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/sfeatu...
- 800 airplanes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/sfeatu...
- Six parachute regiments http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/sfeatu...
- Landed on the beaches of Normandy
- 13,000 bombs were dropped over the coast of Normandy just before the invasion http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/sfeatu...
- Over 5,000 ships http://www.army.mil/d-day/
- Dwight D. Eisenhower said he would "accept nothing less than a full victory" http://www.army.mil/d-day/
- Also called: Operation Neptune and Operation Overlord

D-Day commemorates the Allied Forces' invasion of Europe in 1944, during World War II. On June 6, 1944, 150,000 soldiers landed on the shores of Normandy, France, in what was called Operation Overlord..PBS:D-Day PBS
June 6, 2009, marked the 65th anniversary of D-Day. President Barack Obama attended ceremonies the anniversary in France. Obama's great-uncle, Charles Payne, who was one of the men who fought in Normandy, was also in attendance.LAT: Obama in France to mark D-Day
Normandy Beaches Invaded
- Omaha Beach
- Utah Beach
- Sword Beach
- Gold Beach
- Juno Beach

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jasoncalacanis added a comment June 06, 2009 06:30 PM
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Another wonderful speech by Barack Obama.

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  Jun 5, 2009 ... It was a massacre that was hushed up for decades — how 749 Americans died in a practice for the Normandy landings.
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- Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Normandy 1944
  
  The story of the Normandy Invasion through the spoken recollections of veterans who fought it, the newsreels that recorded the events, ...
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  The US Army remembers June 6, 1944: D-Day in Normandy, France. Video, audio, photos, posters, and maps tell the story.
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- Normandy Landings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
  This article is about the first day of the Invasion of Normandy (D-Day). .... Operation Neptune began on D-Day ( June 6, 1944) and ended...
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- American Experience | D-Day
  
  Participants describe the planning and execution of the Normandy invasion during World War II, and the battle for the French beaches.
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