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September 2011
WWII History
Liberating Cherbourg, Normandy’s Great Port
By David H. LippmanIt was the storm that forced the battle. On June 19, 1944, a massive gale hit the English Channel, sweeping in from the west, hitting the gigantic artificial harbors the Allies had built on their D-Day invasion beaches. Read more