Photos: U.K. 75th Anniversary of D-Day Celebration – USNI News

Photos: U.K. 75th Anniversary of D-Day Celebration – USNI News

June 7, 2019 4:18 PM

PORTSMOUTH, U.K. — On June 5, 1944, an armada of over 1213 warships set out to escort 4126 landing craft and 864 merchant ships across the storm-tossed waters of the English Channel in the largest ever amphibious landing in history.

Crammed aboard the landing craft heading for Normandy were over 132,000 troops from the Allied nations, primarily from Britain, Canada and…

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