D-Day by the numbers: Here's what it took 79 years ago to pull off the biggest amphibious invasion in history

D-Day by the numbers: Here's what it took 79 years ago to pull off the biggest amphibious invasion in history

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US Troops wading through water after reaching Normandy and landing Omaha beach on D Day, 1944. Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images The scale of the Allied invasion on June 6, 1944 was unlike anything seen before. By that summer, the Allies had slowed the forward march of the powerful…

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