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Omaha Beach, today Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center Colleville-sur-Mer « Sixty-three years after Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy to turn the tide of World War II in Europe, a new visitor center at the Normandy American Cemetery in France opened in May 2007 to tell the story of the 9,387 Americans buried there and put the D-Day landings and follow-on battle in Europe in perspective as one of the greatest military achievements of all time. One-third of the building’s 30,000

178K views · 4.3K reactions | This restored and colorized 1947 documentary, "The Airborne Invasion of Fortress Europe," offers a stunning and authentic look at the American paratrooper operations during the D-Day landings in Normandy, June 6, 1944. | Aviation And History | Facebook