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WWII: Operation Overlord and D-Day

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, For Tomorrow ...

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, For Tomorrow ...

American combat engineers fill up atop boxes of ammunition ahead of the D-Day invasion at Stratford-on-Avon in England, May, 1944.

Photo: Frank Scherschel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

May 01, 1944
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