Marking the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings
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On 6 June 1944, 150,000 British, US and Canadian forces landed at Normandy on the coast of northern France.
It marked the first stage of Operation Overlord – the Allied plan to invade Nazi-occupied Europe and bring the war to a conclusion – and was the largest amphibious assault the world had ever seen.
Commemorating 70 years since that day when the Allies took a foothold in France and pushed on to win the war in Europe, events are taking place all over the UK and in France...
