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DÍA D: 80º aniversario de los desembarcos Aliados en Normandía

By Duncan Mil

June 6, 2019 - El 6 de junio de 1944, más de 150,000 soldados de las tropas Aliadas desembarcan en la costa norte de Francia, marcando el inicio de la liberación de la nación ocupada por los nazis. Se recuerda como un momento que definió la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

D-Day was the name given to the June 6, 1944, invasion of the beaches at Normandy in northern France by troops from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other countries during World War II. At the time, France was occupied by the armies of Nazi Germany, and the amphibious assault—codenamed Operation Overlord—landed some 156,000 Allied soldiers on the beaches of Normandy by the end of the day.

At the time, the D-Day invasion was the largest naval, air and land operation in history, and within a few days around 326,000 troops, more than 50,000 vehicles and 100,000 tons of equipment had landed. By August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and in the spring of 1945, the Allies had defeated the Germans. Historians often refer to D-Day as the beginning of the end of World War II.

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PUBLISHED: 01/06/2024; STORY: Graphic News
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