d-day
Seventy years ago, 150,000 Allied troops stormed ashore at Normandy. Within hours they had secured a beachhead, and 11 months later Hitler's Third Reich was in ashes.
Seventy years ago - on June 6, 1944, commonly known as D-Day - World War II took a dramatic turn with the Allied invasion of Normandy.
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