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WWII: Operation Overlord and D-Day

It Makes an Interesting Table Cloth

It Makes an Interesting Table Cloth

A German flag captured in the French town of Carentan doubles as a tablecloth for a U.S. Coast Guard officer and two Army officers aboard a Coast Guard-manned landing craft off the French coast. During the D-Day invasion, it took 4,100 landing craft to ferry 160,000 men to a coastline that stretched 50 miles long and was protected by heavy enemy fire.

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Jan 01, 1944