Dignitaries and Second World War veterans are marking the 79th anniversary of D-Day
The invasion took place June 6, 1944, and saw of tens of thousands of troops from the United States, the UK, France and Canada landing on five stretches of the Normandy coastline – codenamed Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword beaches. Planning for D-Day began more than a year in advance, and the Allies carried out substantial military deception – codenamed Operation Bodyguard – to confuse the Germans as to when and where the invasion would take place.
However, not all the landings were successful; US forces suffered substantial losses at Omaha beach, where strong currents forced many landing craft away from their intended positions, delaying and hampering the invasion strategy. Heavy fire from German positions on the steep cliffs, which had not been effectively destroyed by Allied bombing before the invasion, also caused casualties.
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