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Friday also marks the day when U-S General Dwight Eisenhower told the troops in his command. "Your task will not be an easy one." The task: the Allied invasion of Normandy. Eisenhower was correct. The largest amphibious invasion in history, left thousands of allied troops dead and even more wounded.

The full brunt of the D-Day landings was felt along these 50 miles of Normandy beaches. Seven decades later a dwindling number of the 156,000 who fought in the attack have returned. Along with D-Day enthusiasts, who’ve brought a little bit of 1944 in tribute to the bravery of a remarkable generation.

In the regional. The invasion here was actually meant to have happened on June the 5th, but the choppy waters of the English channel saw D-Day delayed by 24 hours. However, once this mighty war machine was on its way, it proved unstoppable.

As well as 156,000 infantry, there were 18,000 paratroopers, 11,000 planes, an armada of 4,400 watercraft and 1,500 tanks. Within a year of establishing a beachhead in Normandy the Third Reich had been crushed and Adolf Hitler was dead in his Berlin Bunker. The cost in human life was immense 9,000 soldiers killed; missing or wounded. German losses estimated at about the same. 20,000 civilians living here at the time were also killed, largely as a consequence of allied bombing.

It is that terrible sacrifice by soldiers and civilians that brings together here survivors and 17 world world leaders ironically, perhaps, at a time of rising tensions in Europe.
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