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It is first light on the 6th of June 1944 D-Day. On this day the Allies launched the largest combined land air and sea operation ever from Southern England to liberate Europe from Hitler and Nazi oppression. Code-named Overlord the entire operation was a tremendous gamble. The element of surprise was paramount and through a tangle of intrigue the German high command was led to believe the invasion would occur not at Normandy but at Calais only twenty miles from England across  
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