Photos: Coming ashore on D-Day, 1944

D-Day
6th June 1944: American soldiers on a landing craft on their way to the Normandy beaches, during the invasion of Europe.
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Seventy years after Allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy, President Barack Obama returned Friday to the hallowed battleground in what he called a "powerful manifestation of America's commitment to human freedom" that lives on in a new generation. Below are a few photos of what the day looked like.

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