Photographer Robert Sargent captures the view of Omaha Beach on D-Day
Operation Overlord, invasion of France, has been postponed 24 hours due to bad weather; 160,000 troops ready in UK. pic.twitter.com/qb8f9k8maV
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Huge deception campaign, "Operation Bodyguard", has filled southern England with inflatable tanks to confuse Nazis. pic.twitter.com/J6glUBeDrJ
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Operation Overlord has begun in the air: 600+ Allied bombers smashing German-occupied French coast, hitting defences, radar stations, roads.
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Biggest armada in history- 5,300 ships carrying 150,000 troops- now crossing Channel, heading for Normandy beaches. pic.twitter.com/bVPSut5S7w
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H-Hour on D-Day. 1st US troops now landing on Utah & Omaha beaches, Normandy; Allied invasion of France has begun. pic.twitter.com/g9X0nZVIFz
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Omaha beach has become a killing ground, German defenders gunning down attacking US troops as they struggle in surf. pic.twitter.com/dDGsunlHzp
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Photographer Robert Sargent, in landing craft on Omaha beach, captures US 1st Infantry Division wading into gunfire pic.twitter.com/y0VeTeiGQo
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7.30AM British & Canadian troops now landing on Normandy beaches Juno, Gold & Sword, last 3 Allied assault targets. pic.twitter.com/Ds34JAHFnk
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D-Day troops backed by 1500 amphibious "DD" tanks with floating canvas skirts, able to "sail" over a mile. pic.twitter.com/lpnfO9WGUb
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German machine-gun fire catches a US soldier's hand grenade, setting this landing craft ablaze off Omaha beach: pic.twitter.com/cxXhurkHfp
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Hitler finally awake in Berghof; he's refusing to order counterattack, thinks Normandy landings are diversion from planned attack at Calais.
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British commandos land on Sword beach, with Scottish bagpiper Bill Millin playing "Highland Laddie" over gunfire. pic.twitter.com/vUUSzOvc2U
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2nd wave of US troops on Omaha add to chaos at shoreline. Col. George Taylor rallying men to leave shingle & attack. pic.twitter.com/kgLaoOVMFq
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Col. Taylor: "Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die- now let's get the hell out of here!"
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US troops on Omaha beach have broken out, taking bluffs, send message to Gen Omar Bradley: "Things look better now." pic.twitter.com/vAdmPzHfrN
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British, Canadian troops have broken out of their beaches to find roads & villages fortified & swarming with Germans pic.twitter.com/RxoNXxMj9Y
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Canadian soldiers of 9th Brigade landing on Juno beach, carrying bicycles to speed their advance inland. pic.twitter.com/Hfme39isoS
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22nd Panzer regiment ordered to push invaders into sea, told "The fate of Germany depends on success of your attack" pic.twitter.com/n52qJKvnaX
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Lord Lovat leads UK Commandos to capture village, is offered champagne by French café owner: "Not now, I'm working." pic.twitter.com/7Igq54L2fl
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Hitler, still believing Normandy landings a feint, finally agrees to send 2 panzer divisions to stop Allied invasion pic.twitter.com/pWo0QIxT20
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Hitler: "News couldn't be better. As long as [Allies] were in Britain we couldn't get at them. Now we have them where we can destroy them
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1st news from D-Day invasion fleet reaches UK, carried over Channel by Gustav the pigeon. https://t.co/KlqJXxzLo5 pic.twitter.com/tvcBVJjBbN
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Heinrich Severloh, last man in German strongpoint on Omaha beach, leaves post after firing 12000 rounds at US troops pic.twitter.com/xxlT8J1VsT
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German prisoners captured by advancing Allied forces marched back to beaches, ready for evacuation to UK. pic.twitter.com/ICS9WH5KhZ
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Despite breaking past Atlantic Wall on coast, British have ground to halt, counter-attacked by 21st Panzer Division. pic.twitter.com/rWDZaJM37p
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Female war correspondent Martha Gellhorn has made it to Normandy beaches after smuggling herself on a hospital ship. pic.twitter.com/3r3IftNATp
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Martha's husband Ernest Hemingway chosen over her to report D-Day; she impersonates stretcher-bearer to get on beach pic.twitter.com/fLhknU7qEe
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10000+ Allied paratroopers, dropped before landings, capture key bridges leading to beaches & sow chaos for Germans. pic.twitter.com/W0jd7IweAF
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British paratroopers preparing to take off for France, to reinforce Allies: "The Channel stopped you, but not us." pic.twitter.com/hsOVgrmVSJ
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Normandy beaches have been conquered, with 140,000+ Allies ashore, but bitter cost: 4414 Allies dead, 5000+ Germans. pic.twitter.com/bzsA78y8jT
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Agents of French resistance working with Allied invaders in Normandy, guiding paratroopers & sabotaging railways. pic.twitter.com/xu2woHrD7k
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2 German panzer divisions, not moving in daylight for fear of Allied bombers, have rushed overnight towards Normandy pic.twitter.com/HZgu4zbm7E
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Rommel, back in French headquarters, furious to learn all Seine bridges towards Normandy bombed: "What's happened to our proud Luftwaffe?"
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Allied "liberty ships" are being scuttled off Normandy beaches, forming artificial breakwater for invasion fleet. pic.twitter.com/GALXMumziD
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2 artificial harbours, codenamed "Mulberry", are being towed across Channel to create unloading site at Normandy. pic.twitter.com/VxqaDyodpK
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Mulberry harbours made of 400+ seperate pieces, steel road floated on concrete pontoons, weighing 1.5 million tons. pic.twitter.com/KZLE23tMhq
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Situation map from Allied headquarters shows beachheads secure, but major target of Caen failed; paratroops isolated pic.twitter.com/QHzYg07Ap4
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Yesterday, Omaha beach was a battleground. Today, it's become a massive staging post, unloading 1000s of men & tanks pic.twitter.com/hpjeiQwm40
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Allied PoWs include Russians, Ukrainians, central Asians- ex-Red Army who chose to serve Germans rather than starve. pic.twitter.com/IzSsOTbZMm
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Twitter user @RealTimeWWII shares the history of the Second World War on this day and time 102 years in the past.