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What is D-Day? How the Normandy landings led to Germany’s defeat in World War II

Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

The Associated Press on MSN · 10h

D-Day veterans return to Normandy to mark 81st anniversary of landings

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler’s regime.

USA TODAY on MSN · 21h

D-Day in photos: See historic images from the Normandy landings

Friday, June 6, marks 81 years since the allied forces of World War II stormed the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day. The amphibious assault – codenamed Operation Overlord – involved landing approximately 160,000 Allied soldiers on the French beaches, resulting in 4,427 casualties – according to the National D-Day Memorial Foundation.

The Edwardsville Intelligencer1d

Walking in the footsteps of heroes: A visit to Normandy 81 years after D-Day

Members of an American landing unit help their exhausted comrades ashore during the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944. The ...

WCJB TV20 on MSN14h

Weather nearly sinks D-Day landings, meteorologist breaks down 1944 forecasting for Allied invasion

Today marks eighty one years since the largest naval invasion in history, also known as D-Day, when over 150,000 allied ...

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10 American inventions that helped win D-Day

Learn how American inventions that helped the Allies invade Normandy on D-Day gave way to equipment being used decades later ...

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