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The Beginning Of The End: Operation Overload

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GIs aboard a landing craft: 160,000 strong on D-Day alone, 875,000 by the end of June.

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For better or worse, the view as months of waiting end.

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An LST (Landing Ship, Tank) lands a Sherman M-4 tank at Normandy.

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Even by modern standards, Overlord’s scale was massive.

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Overall commander Gen. Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower with his troops.

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Inside a Douglas C-47 Skytrain, waiting on “green."

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A-20 Havoc in invasion stripes works over German positions in the hedgerows behind Normandy.