Published Date:
06 June 2009
By Neil Griffiths
OVERHEAD, hundreds of Allied bombers aircraft droned towards France. Below, 500 ships and landing craft carrying 150,000 men steamed towards Normandy, 207 warships unleashed salvo after salvo.
It was H-Hour of D-Day – 6 June 1944 – and Operation Overlord had begun.The assault area was a 60-mile stretch of the Normandy coast. The Americans would attack Omaha and Utah beaches in the west, while Anglo-Canadian troops would land on Gold, Juno ...
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Last Updated:
05 June 2009 11:56 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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Related Topics:
World War II
