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  • Thumbnail for American airborne landings in Normandy
    American airborne landings in Normandy were a series of military operations carried by the United States as part of Operation Overlord, the invasion of...
    57 KB (8,041 words) - 06:10, 20 June 2024
  • The Order of battle for the American airborne landings in Normandy is a list of the units immediately available for combat on the Cotentin Peninsula between...
    17 KB (1,818 words) - 02:45, 18 June 2024
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    Allied aircraft. The attacking 101st Airborne Division, landed by parachute on 6 June as part of the American airborne landings in Normandy, was ordered to...
    31 KB (3,944 words) - 15:32, 25 June 2024
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    cemetery of Saint Laurent, covers 172.5 acres and contains 9,388 gravesites. A memorial in the cemetery includes maps and details of the Normandy landings and...
    22 KB (2,540 words) - 21:13, 12 August 2024
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    Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings during the Second World War. The paratroopers and glider-borne airborne troops of the division, commanded by...
    51 KB (6,789 words) - 17:50, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Cherbourg
    The Battle of Cherbourg was part of the Battle of Normandy during World War II. It was fought immediately after the successful Allied landings on 6 June...
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    as an airborne unit in 1942. During World War II, it gained renown for its role in Operation Overlord (the D-Day landings and airborne landings on 6 June...
    148 KB (15,334 words) - 23:35, 5 August 2024
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    World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 (D-Day) with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune). A 1,200-plane airborne assault preceded...
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  • Thumbnail for Normandy landings
    The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord...
    95 KB (11,151 words) - 23:34, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Saint-Malo
    considerably before the Allied landings in Normandy during June 1944. As part of their invasion plans, the Allies intended to capture the town so that its...
    64 KB (8,539 words) - 18:30, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Allied forces in the Normandy campaign
    unit articles may contain a complete order of battle. See also Hastings Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy Independent and GHQ brigades included...
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    In all, 3,500 paratroopers made the most concentrated mass night drop in history, providing the model for the American airborne landings in Normandy in...
    72 KB (9,326 words) - 06:26, 22 March 2024
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    the landing beach. The mission was vital to the success of Operation Tonga, the overall British airborne landings in Normandy. Failure to capture the...
    44 KB (5,850 words) - 11:47, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 6th Airborne Division (United Kingdom)
    troops in France as part of Operation Overlord, was Operation Tonga on 6 June 1944, D-Day, part of the Normandy landings, where it was responsible for securing...
    30 KB (3,171 words) - 05:49, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Graignes
    The Battle of Graignes was part of the American airborne landings in Normandy during the early stages of Operation Overlord in World War II, fought between...
    14 KB (1,830 words) - 21:35, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom)
    invasion of Normandy. It was not involved in the Normandy landings in June 1944, being held in reserve. In September 1944 the 1st Airborne took part in Operation...
    46 KB (5,220 words) - 12:04, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle for Brest
    The Battle for Brest was fought in August and September 1944 on the Western Front during World War II. Part of the overall Battle for Brittany and the...
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    That's All, Brother (category Individual aircraft of World War II)
    American airborne landings in Normandy Styled as "That's All--Brother" on the airplane itself That model is considered particularly desirable for such conversions...
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  • Mission Detroit (category American airborne landings in Normandy)
    combat assault in the American airborne landings in Normandy, made by elements of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division on the early morning of June 6, 1944,...
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  • In modern use, the order of battle of an armed force participating in a military operation or campaign shows the hierarchical organization, command structure...
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