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| American paratroopers wait for the command to parachute into Normandy, France, just before midnight on June 5, 1944. More than 20,000 Allied paratroopers were sent in advance of the June 6 D-Day invasion to seize and hold bridges and roads against an expected German counterattack. | ||||||
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