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  • Today in History: D-DAY A/K/A OPERATION OVERLORD AND THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY

    06/06/2007 6:01:12 AM PDT · by K-oneTexas · 45 replies · 1,362+ views
    NealzNuze ^ | 6 June 2007 | Neal Boortz
    Wednesday - June 5, 2007D-DAY A/K/A OPERATION OVERLORD AND THE BATTLE OF NORMANDYSixty-three years ago on this day allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy in what is still, to this day, the largest seaborne invasion in the history of the world. Just a little historical oddity, but the name for the overall operation to retake Western Europe from Hitler's Nazis was Operation Overlord. The name for the actual June 6th invasion of Normandy was Operation Neptune. Neptune began on June 6, 1944, and ended 24 days later on June 30th. The allied forces suffered about 10,000 causalities on D-Day....