D-Day was the largest amphibious assault ever devised when, on the 6th of June 1944, the American, British and Canadian forces stormed the beaches of Normandy where thousands of troops were killed

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D-Day 80th Anniversary

Local Navy WWII Veteran, Seaman Claire Voss, remembers D-Day and more

On the beach at St. Laurent-sur-mer in the Normandy region of France, a metal monument protrudes from the sands