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June 5, 2014 02:00 pm GMT

'Full Victory — Nothing Else': Iconic D-Day Images for Its 70th Anniversary

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On June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in the coordinated invasion of occupied France known as D-Day.

Friday marks the 70th anniversary of the largest seaborne invasion in history — more than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft were sent to infiltrate the heavily German-fortified French coastline.

See also: War and Peace: 10 Photos Commemorating 100 Years Since WWI

D-Day, or Operation Neptune, was the first move in Operation Overlord, the codename for the Battle of Normandy. Nine thousand Allied soldiers were killed or wounded, but 100,000 went on to march against the Axis forces — in what would eventually lead to the successful Allied invasion of western Europe occupied by Nazi Germany. Read more...

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