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It was the most powerful, boldest, most adventurous and most costly landing operation in history: on June 6, 1944, around 200,000 men - Americans, British and their allies - set out to storm "Fortress Europe" to seal the defeat of the Third Reich.
At dawn on June 6, the Normandy coastline turns into a hell of fire and smoke.
When the first landing craft reached the beach at 6.30 a.m., the German soldiers fired grenades and heavy machine-gun salvos into the clusters of people landing on the flat beach, who were completely defenceless against the shelling.
It was a terrible massacre.
In the "Omaha Beach" landing sector alone, thousands of Americans fall in a short space of time, torn and shredded by iron and steel.
Soldiers who survived this horrific moment will never forget it.
