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WWII: Operation Overlord and D-Day

Impromptu Ammo Depot for D-Day

Impromptu Ammo Depot for D-Day

Ammunition lies in wait in the town square of Morten-in-Marsh in England shortly before D-Day. The Allies dropped 10,000 tons of bombs on German defenses to soften up the coast for the invasion.

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

May 01, 1944
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