D-Day, June 6th 1944~~~
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A great invasion force stood off the Normandy coast of France as dawn broke on 6 June 1944:
9 battleships, 23 cruisers, 104 destroyers, and 71 large landing craft of various descriptions as well as troop transports, mine sweepers, and merchantmen—in all, nearly 5,000 ships of every type, the largest armada ever assembled.
The naval bombardment that began at 0550 that morning detonated large minefields along the shoreline and destroyed a number of the enemy's defensive positions.
To one correspondent, reporting from the deck of the cruiser HMS Hillary, it sounded like "the rhythmic beating of a gigantic drum" all along the coast.
In the hours following the bombardment, more than 100,000 fighting men swept ashore to begin one of the epic assaults of history, a "mighty endeavor," as President Franklin D. Roosevelt described it to the American people, "to preserve …our civilization and to set free a suffering humanity."
D-Day, June 6th 1944
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Normandy invasion (1944): D-Day German footage
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D-Day Normandy - 6th June 1944
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