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Landing ships
putting ashore on
Omaha Beach
at low tide during the first days of the
Invasion of Normandy
, mid-June, 1944.
Barrage balloons
fly overhead and
U.S. Army
"
half-tracks
" form a convoy on the beach. The
Normandy
landing was the largest seaborne
invasion
in history, with almost three million troops crossing the
English Channel
.
Photo credit:
United States Coast Guard
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