D-Day: 10 things you might not know about the Normandy invasion
When the D-Day forces landed, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was asleep.Crucial hours were lost in the battle to hold Normandy.
Of the 156,000 men who landed in France on 6 June, 73,000 were American, and 83,000 were British and Canadian, while the Commonwealth naval contingent was twice that of the Americans.There were five beaches that were chosen for the operation, codenamed, from east to west, Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha, Utah.
The fighting during the Battle of Normandy, which followed D-Day, was as bloody as it had been in the trenches of World War One.
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