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Tar Heels at Normandy on D-day

RALEIGH – Hundreds of North Carolinians were among the approximately 160,000 Allied troops at the Omaha and Utah Beach landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944. The tidal wave of American, British, and Canadian troops marked the beginning of the end for Hitler’s Army in occupied France, and hastened the fall of the Third [...]