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It's been 75 years since D-Day: Here's how the Allies began to reclaim Europe...

2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.On June 6, 1944, Allied forces...

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8 famous people who served on D-Day

2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.June 2019 will mark the 75th...

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3 unsung World War II female spies who helped make D-Day a victory

Women played key roles in D-Day, the Allied assault on Nazi-held France that is the largest amphibious invasion in history."People tend to think women were 'just' secretarial couriers and messengers,"...

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How Soviet troops taunted the Nazis during their final drive to Berlin in...

The final weeks of April 1945 saw Soviet troops advance on Berlin, bringing World War II in Europe to an end.Amid the Soviet onslaught and the confused Nazi retreat, Russian troops found ways to...

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These 8 iconic images tell the story of every US conflict from World War I to...

Germany and the axis powers in Europe were defeated in World War II 74 years ago on May 8.With as many as 50 million killed, it is the deadliest conflict in history. It is also the war that cemented...

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The Army may have just found a Navy 'Helldiver' carrier bomber lost in 1946

Army engineers has been clearing a site around Martha's Vineyard of munitions and ordnance for the past three years.The recovery of a propeller and machine gun have led researchers to believe they...

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It's been 75 years since D-Day: Here's how the Allies began to reclaim Europe...

2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.On June 6, 1944, Allied forces...

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8 famous people who served on D-Day

2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.June 2019 will mark the 75th...

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3 unsung World War II female spies who helped make D-Day a victory

Women played key roles in D-Day, the Allied assault on Nazi-held France that is the largest amphibious invasion in history."People tend to think women were 'just' secretarial couriers and messengers,"...

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D-Day veterans are crossing the English Channel again, and this time they're...

Veterans gathered in England this weekend for a tour retracing their steps ahead of the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of France.World leaders, veterans, and others are heading to England and Normandy in...

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Godzilla was birthed from the devastation in Japan after the Hiroshima and...

Godzilla has long reigned as the king of all big-monster movie franchises for more than 60 years.But many people don't know that Godzilla was inspired by a tragic fishing-boat accident that shook the...

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The D-Day landings were only one part of the operation — the next part needed...

The D-Day landings by US, British, and Canadian troops on June 6, 1944, were the largest seaborne operation in history.But the landings were only the beginning of the operation. To keep the invasion...

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Parachutists just jumped into France — including a 97-year-old veteran who...

Parachutists descended on Carentan, France, on Wednesday in a recreation of the jump US soldiers made 75 years ago ahead of the D-Day landings.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more...

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After 75 years, the D-Day landings are fading from memory, but one veteran...

Allied troops stormed ashore at Normandy on June 6, 1944, beginning the long, bloody fight to retake Western Europe.Leon Gautier was one of the first French commandos to hit the beach, and the memories...

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Leaders from 16 countries joined Queen Elizabeth to commemorate the 75th...

World leaders gathered in England on Wednesday to commemorate the D-Day landings ahead of their 75th anniversary.Queen Elizabeth was joined by President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel,...

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These haunting photo overlays capture the horrors of D-Day, which happened...

Thursday was the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the seaborne invasion of Nazi-occupied France that changed the course of World War II.The opened up another front in the war, dividing Nazi forces.Peter...

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Photos of D-Day 75-year memorials show World War II jeeps, fighter planes,...

Thursday marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings at Normandy, France.Allied troops mostly from the UK, the US, and Canada landed on five beaches on the French coast to liberate France from...

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5 big surprises the Germans got on D-Day

Despite all the preparations involved, the Allied invasion at Normandy in France in 1944 still caught the Germans off guard.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Believe it or not, the...

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Americans are still enjoying the security won by the troops who stormed the...

Seventy-five years after Allied troops stormed ashore in Normandy, the world continues to enjoy a peace they and other Allied forces helped secure.The international system built in the decades that...

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One of first soldiers to charge the beach on D-Day was a Canadian bagpiper,...

On June 6, 1944, a soldier named Bill Millin played the bagpipes to boost morale as Allied troops stormed beaches in Normandy, France, on D-Day to liberate Nazi-occupied France.His commander ordered...

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