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English: LCT carrying Jeeps to the Normandy beach, after offloading them from USS LST-282, in the background, 15 June 1944. Note engine breather tubes on the Jeeps, for fording the water between the LCT and the shore, and the bow ramp being raised on the LST.
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 (after the military term ), it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.
In his 1962 book, Night Drop: The American Airborne Invasion of Normandy, Army historian S.L.A. Marshall concluded that the mixed performance overall of the airborne troops in Normandy resulted from poor performance by the troop carrier pilots. In coming to that conclusion, he did not interview any aircrew nor qualify his opinion to that extent ...
A beach landing by the Royal Marines of 47 Commando at Asnelles before their annual ‘yomp’ to Port-en-Bessin, in Normandy, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings (Aaron ...
Normandy Invasion, June 1944 Description English: USS Arkansas (BB-33) fires her 12-inch guns at German positions, while supporting the Omaha Beach landings, 6 June 1944.
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As a young man, Rommel's father had been an artillery lieutenant. Rommel had one older sister who was an art teacher and his favourite sibling, one older brother named Manfred who died in infancy, and two younger brothers, of whom one became a successful dentist and the other an opera singer.