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D-Day: Cracking Hitler’s Fortress
 
   

Under heavy attack from the Germans, American soldiers wade ashore at Omaha Beach. They suffered 2,400 casualties at Omaha but by the end of the day had landed 34,000 troops.

[AP photo June 6, 1944]

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