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  2. Arromanches-les-Bains - Wikipedia

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    Geography. Arromanches-les-Bains is 12 km north-east of Bayeux and 10 km west of Courseulles-sur-Mer on the coast where the Normandy landings took place on D-Day, 6 June 1944. Access to the commune is by the D514 road from Tracy-sur-Mer in the west passing through the town and continuing to Saint-Côme-de-Fresné in the east.

  3. British Normandy Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The British Normandy Memorial is a war memorial near the village of Ver-sur-Mer in Normandy, France. It was unveiled on 6 June 2021, the 77th anniversary of D-Day, and it is dedicated to soldiers who died under British command during the Normandy landings. [ a] The memorial records the names of 22,442 people from more than 30 countries under ...

  4. Normandy landings - Wikipedia

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    Normandy landings. / 49.34; -0.60. The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.

  5. Battle of Carentan - Wikipedia

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    800+ KIA. v. t. e. Operation Overlord. (Battle of Normandy) The Battle of Carentan was an engagement in World War II between airborne forces of the United States Army and the German Wehrmacht during the Battle of Normandy. The battle took place between 6 and 13 June 1944, on the approaches to and within the town of Carentan, France.

  6. American airborne landings in Normandy - Wikipedia

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    21,300 killed, wounded, and missing. American airborne landings in Normandy were a series of military operations carried by the United States as part of Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy by the Allies on June 6, 1944, during World War II. In the opening maneuver of the Normandy landings, about 13,100 American paratroopers from the ...

  7. Gold Beach - Wikipedia

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    Gold Beach. /  49.34528°N 0.57167°W  / 49.34528; -0.57167. Gold, commonly known as Gold Beach, was the code name for one of the five areas of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during the Second World War. Gold, the central of the five areas, was located between Port-en-Bessin on the ...

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