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2013 FILE: Archival footage of the Allies landing on beaches in Normandy on June 6 1944 to begin
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1:07Now PlayingDate: 6th June 2013
Location: France
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
ENGLISH CHANNEL (FILE-JUNE 1944) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS)
VARIOUS AERIAL AND AT SEA FOOTAGE OF INVASION ARMADA
(SOUNDBITE) (English) NEWSREEL VOICE-OVER "Over the channel there was heavy cloud. Already poor flying weather had postponed the invasion 24 hours, but now the great triphibious operation was underway. Through the cloud gaps the airborne spearhead saw something of the invasion armada. 4,000 ships and thousands of smaller craft were heading south."
VARIOUS AERIAL AND AT SEA FOOTAGE OF INVASION ARMADA
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