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D-day was originally set for June 5 but had to be postponed for 24 hours due to bad weather

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Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Fuhrerbunker in Berlin.His wife Eva Braun committed suicide with him by taking cyanide. That afternoon, in accordance with Hitler's prior instructions, their remains were carried up the stairs through the bunker's emergency exit

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Mussolini kidnapped and killed,1945 27 april, 1945 30 april, Hitler commits suicide.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Bernard Montgomery Omar Bradley Miles Dempsey Trafford Leigh-Mallory Bertram Ramsay Arthur Tedder | Gerd von Rundstedt Erwin Rommel Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg Friedrich Dollmann Hans von Salmuth Wilhelm Falley

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On the night of the D-Dayinvasion, only 15% of paratroopers landed in the right place

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The German air force was outnumbered 30:1 on D-Day and didn't shoot down a single allied plane in air-to-air combat.

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D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion history, with over 156,000 men landing in Normandy.

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D-Day is a good day!

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German casualties on D-Day were around 1,000 men, while Allied casualties were at least 10,000.

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D-Day = Dooms day

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From 12 March 1944, Britain barred all travel to Ireland in order to prevent the leaking of the date of the D-Day landings.

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In military terms, D-Day means a date and H-Hour a time for combat operations.

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4% of the sand on Normandy beaches are still made up of metal particles from D-Day landings.

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d day originally set for June 5 but has to postponed for 24 hours due to bad weather.

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Nat King Cole - D-Day From the album The Blitz Years - Lighter Days Available on iTunes at http://smarturl.it/iTunesBlitzLighter

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The main countries involved in D-Day on the side of the Allies were the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. There were also troops from Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Poland. The only country in the Axis Powers to participate in the battle was Germany

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Foul weather postponed the attack for two days. Just after midnight on June 6, three airborne divisions parachuted behind enemy lines to disrupt paths of communications. As the German lookout sentries scanned the English Channel at daybreak, they saw the largest armada ever assembled in history heading toward the French shore. There were five points of attack. GOLD AND SWORD BEACHES were taken by the British, and JUNO BEACH was captured by Canadian forces. The American task was to capture UTAH AND OMAHA BEACHES. The troops at Omaha Beach met fierce resistance and suffered heavy casualties. Still, by nightfall a beachhead had been established. Eventually, German troops retreated.

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Early on 6 June, Allied airborne forces parachuted into drop zones across northern France. Ground troops then landed across five assault beaches - Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. By the end of the day, the Allies had established a foothold along the coast and could begin their advance into France.

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D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion in history, with over 156,000 men landing in Normandy.
The German airforce was outnumbered 30:1 on D-Day and didn't shoot down a single allied plane in air-to-air combat.

The Allies parachuted dummies over Normandyon D-day to distract Nazi gunners from the real paratroopers.

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The time had finally come. British and American troops had liberated North Africa and pressed on into Italy. Soviet troops had turned the tide at Stalingrad and were slowly reclaiming their territory. The ENGLISH CHANNEL was virtually free of Nazi submarines, and American and British planes were bombing German industrial centers around the clock.

Still, Hitler refused to surrender and hid behind his ATLANTIC WALL.

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Although the term D-Day is used routinely as military lingo for the day an operation or event will take place, for many it is also synonymous with June 6, 1944, the day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II.

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D-Day is the day that WW2 ends, but not for japan...

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American troops storm the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history. More than 160,000 Allied troops -- about half of them Americans -- invaded Western Europe, overwhelming German forces in an operation that proved to be a turning point in World War II.

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The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II

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During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. Prior to D-Day, the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. By late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans.

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Location: Normandy, France

Date: June 6, 1944

Result: Decisive Allied victory