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D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion in history, with over 156,000 men landing in Normandy. |
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D-Day was originally set for June 5 but had to be postponed for 24 hours due to bad weather. |
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When the D-Day forces landed, Hitler was asleep. None of his generals dared send re-enforcements without his permission, and no-one dared wake him. |
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German casualties on D-Day were around 1,000 men, while Allied casualties were at least 10,000. |
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In 1944, by a huge coincidence, a crossword puzzle was printed with answers all containing D-Day operation "code names", which sent MI-5 into a panic thinking their invasion plans had been discovered. |
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr was the only General involved in the initial assault on D-Day, after insisting to his superiors to be one of the first ones off the boats. He survived, then died of a heart attack one month later. |
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The German airforce was outnumbered 30:1 on D-Day and didn't shoot down a single allied plane in air-to-air combat. |
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