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Today in U.S. Naval History: June 6

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June 6, 2014

Troops and crewmen aboard a Coast Guard manned LCVP as it approaches a Normandy beach on "D-Day", June 6, 1944. (Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives.)

Troops and crewmen aboard a Coast Guard manned LCVP as it approaches a Normandy beach on "D-Day", June 6, 1944. (Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives.)

Today in U.S. Naval History - June 6

1944 - D-Day, in Operation Overlord, Allied invasion fleet (more than 2,700 ships and craft) land troops on Normandy beaches, the largest amphibious landing in history

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