Today marks 68 years since the D-day landings on the beaches of Normandy.It's difficult to imagine that, approaching the 5 beaches by sea, were 156,000 men and around 20,000 vehicles. On D-day allied aircraft flew 14.674 sorties and 127 were lost.Casualties on the British beaches were roughly 1,000 on Gold Beach and the same number on Sword Beach.

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