![]() More than 4,000 Allied troops die, and 6,000 are wounded, but the Allies succeed in breaching Hitler's coastal defense of France. June 6, 1944: An Allied force of more than 150,000 troops, 5,000 ships and 800 aircraft assault 50 miles of northern France's Normandy coastline. Sixty years ago, the forces of the Allied armies of World War II launched the largest land, air and sea operation ever undertaken, called "Overlord." On D-Day, a force more than 150,000 troops strong invaded occupied France to fight the German army. Army troops wade ashore on Normandy's Omaha Beach during the D-Day landings.
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