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3. D-Day - June 6, 1944

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 More than 5,000 ships landing Allied troops on a heavily

defensive 50-mile stretch of Normandy's coastline were

involved in the largest amphibious operation in history, while

thousands more participated in an airborne assault. A major

deception operation fooled the Germans into thinking the

landings were a feint, and there was light resistance at four of

five landing sites. On the fifth, Omaha Beach, U.S. forces came

under heavy fire and 2,000 died as they fought to break out of

the beachhead.