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    Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western...
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    The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord...
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    USS Forrest (DD-461) Operation Torch; Normandy invasion; Operation Dragoon; Battle of Okinawa 1941: USS Fitch (DD-462) Operation Torch; Normandy invasion; Operation...
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    Texas participated in the invasions of North Africa and the Battle of Normandy (also known as D-Day) during World War II. Cabanillas was born to José...
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    General Omar Bradley seven weeks after the D-Day landings, during the Normandy campaign of World War II. The intention was to take advantage of the distraction...
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    holding torches, and throw the torches onto the large bonfire to light it. The fireworks are all set off by hand, not by electronics. Normandy Village...
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  • scholars. Rollo, Duke of Normandy, is locked in a struggle for power with his brother Otto. Urged on by the sycophantic LaTorch, Rollo eventually murders...
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    The Normandy massacres were a series of killings in-which approximately 156 Canadian and two British prisoners of war (POWs) were murdered by soldiers...
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    airborne division. He received his first front-line command in Operation Torch, serving under General George S. Patton in North Africa. After Patton was...
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    of five beaches of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 during the Second World War. The beach spanned...
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