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U.S. Paratroops 1944

Omaha beach

German Coastal Defence Today

Pointe du Hoc Today

D-Day Landings

6th June 1944

“They came, rank after relentless rank, ten lanes wide, twenty miles across, five thousand ships of every description. There were fast new attack transports, slow rust-scarred freighters, small ocean liners, Channel steamers, hospital ships, weather-beaten tankers, coasters and swarms of fussing tugs. There were endless columns of shallow-draft landing ships, great wallowing vessels, some of them almost 350 feet long. Ahead of the convoys were processions of mine sweepers, Coast Guard cutters, buoy-layers and motor launches. Barrage balloons flew above the ships. Squadrons of fighter planes weaved below the clouds. And surrounding this fantastic cavalcade of ships packed with men, guns, tanks, motor vehicles and supplies, was a formidable array of 702 warships”

The Longest Day

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