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Today we honor the 81st anniversary of

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D-Day . On June 6 , 1944 ,

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approximately 156,000 Allied troops

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landed on the beaches at Normandy ,

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France during Operation Neptune . Over

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the next few days , Allied troops

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secured the beachheads and established

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a foothold in France . The landings at

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Normandy were the largest seaborne

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invasion in history . The operation

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began the liberation of France and the

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rest of Western Europe and laid the

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foundations of the Allied victory on

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the Western Front .