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Source: AP

Breaking News

June 6, 2011

67th Anniversary of D-Day Marked in France

World War II veterans and Sen. John Kerry commemorated the D-Day landings in Normandy at an iconic and eroding cliff, one of several events along the coast Monday marking 67 years since Allied forces landed on a swath of beaches in Nazi-occupied France. The June, 6, 1944, invasion and ensuing battle for Normandy helped change the course of the war....

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