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Looking back at D-Day

By Simon Dallow, 1News Presenter

November 22, 2019

Simon Dallow takes us back to one of the most complex and decisive invasions in military history. (Source: Other)

How 156,000 troops landed on the Normandy coast in France in June 1944 and laid the foundations for victory on the Western Front.

(First published June 2019.)

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