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    World War II's D-Day: Photos reveal world's largest amphibious invasion

    Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany unconditionally surrendered during World War II.

  • Troops charge Normandy beach during D-Day trainings
    Troops go ashore during training exercises for the Allied D-Day invasion. This photo was captured earlier in 1943.
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  • A sign is depicted saying: "Invasion Day: Come in and pray for allied victory - hourly intercessions on the hour."
    A sign outside Trinity Church, New York City, inviting worshipers to "come in and pray for Allied victory" in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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  • War ships and blimps carrying soldier travel to Normandy, France
    Ships and blimps sit off the coast of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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  • American flag waves through air as war ships sail to Normandy.
    Coast Guard LCIs, protected by barrage balloons against low-flying Nazi airplanes, advance upon the beaches of France in the wake of the Stars and Stripes, on D-Day.
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  • American servicemen huddle on D-Day war ship.
    U.S. servicemen attend a service aboard a landing craft before the D-Day invasion on the coast of France.​​​​​​​
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  • General Dwight Eisenhower assigns orders to paratroopers on D-Day
    General Dwight Eisenhower gives the order of the day, "Full Victory — Nothing Else" to paratroopers in England just before they board planes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of Europe.
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  • D-Day soldiers storm Normandy beach
    Normandy landings begin as American soldiers leave a barge under fire in World War II, June 6, 1944.
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  • Hundreds of paratroopers pictured in the water as they storm Normandy
    Hundreds of American paratroopers drop into Normandy, France, on D-Day.
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  • A crowd congregates in Times Square on June 6, 1944.
    A crowd congregates in Times Square on June 6, 1944.  
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  • Plane flies over Cherbourg peninsula
    An A-20 Havoc of the 9th US Air Force rears in at a low altitude to blast enemy supply lines on the Cherbourg peninsula, June 1944.
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  • Soldiers carry troop onto beach during D-Day
    Members of an American landing unit help their comrades ashore during the Normandy invasion. 
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  • Walter Cronkite, Frank Starr, Melvin K. Whiteleather, Robert Wilson and Alex Paton dash for the phone to transmit their news in Bloomsbury, England
    (L-R) Journalists Walter Cronkite, Frank Starr, Melvin K. Whiteleather, Robert Wilson and Alex Paton dash for the phone to transmit their news in Bloomsbury, England on June 6, 1944.  
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  • D-Day forces enter the water from docked war ships
    Reinforcements disembark from a landing barge in Normandy during the Allied Invasion of France on D-Day.
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  • American assault troops receive medical aid in Normandy while they rest.
    A group of American assault troops of the 3rd Bat., 16th Inf. Regt., 1st Infantry Div., having gained the comparative safety offered by the chalk cliff at their backs, take a breather before moving inland. Medics who landed with them on D-Day treated them for minor injuries at Collville-Sur-Mer, Normandy.
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  • Soldiers on the mortar crew prepare to fire at enemies during D-Day invasion.
    A mortar crew stands back just before firing into a Nazi position somewhere along the Normandy coast of France.
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  • A weapon carrier moves through the surf towards Utah Beach, near Cherbourg, from its landing craft off the northern coast of France
    A weapon carrier moves through the surf towards Utah Beach, near Cherbourg, from its landing craft off the northern coast of France on June 6, 1944.  
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  • Carrying full equipment, American assault troops move onto a beachhead code-named Omaha Beach
    Carrying full equipment, American assault troops move onto a beachhead code-named Omaha Beach, on the northern coast of France on June 6, 1944. 
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  • US Army troops crowd into a navy landing craft infantry ship during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy
    U.S. Army troops crowd into a navy landing craft infantry ship during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944.  
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  • US troops disembark from landing crafts during D-Day
    U.S. troops disembark from landing crafts during D-Day on June 6, 1944. 
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  • The Allied Naval forces engages in the Overlord operation of landing while Allied forces storm the Normandy beaches
    The Allied Naval forces engage in the Overlord operation of landing while Allied forces storm Normandy's beaches on D-Day. 
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    World War II's D-Day: Photos reveal world's largest amphibious invasion

    Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany unconditionally surrendered during World War II.

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  • World War II's D-Day: Photos reveal world's largest amphibious invasion
  • Troops charge Normandy beach during D-Day trainings
  • A sign is depicted saying: "Invasion Day: Come in and pray for allied victory - hourly intercessions on the hour."
  • War ships and blimps carrying soldier travel to Normandy, France
  • American flag waves through air as war ships sail to Normandy.
  • American servicemen huddle on D-Day war ship.
  • General Dwight Eisenhower assigns orders to paratroopers on D-Day
  • D-Day soldiers storm Normandy beach
  • Hundreds of paratroopers pictured in the water as they storm Normandy
  • A crowd congregates in Times Square on June 6, 1944.
  • Plane flies over Cherbourg peninsula
  • Soldiers carry troop onto beach during D-Day
  • Walter Cronkite, Frank Starr, Melvin K. Whiteleather, Robert Wilson and Alex Paton dash for the phone to transmit their news in Bloomsbury, England
  • D-Day forces enter the water from docked war ships
  • American assault troops receive medical aid in Normandy while they rest.
  • Soldiers on the mortar crew prepare to fire at enemies during D-Day invasion.
  • A weapon carrier moves through the surf towards Utah Beach, near Cherbourg, from its landing craft off the northern coast of France
  • Carrying full equipment, American assault troops move onto a beachhead code-named Omaha Beach
  • US Army troops crowd into a navy landing craft infantry ship during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy
  • US troops disembark from landing crafts during D-Day
  • The Allied Naval forces engages in the Overlord operation of landing while Allied forces storm the Normandy beaches