Normandy

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Number 14: The Longest Day | This 1962 film depicting the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, won two Academy Awards.

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French police officers stand guard in front of the Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray's city hall, Normandy, France, after an attack on a church that left a priest dead, Tuesday, July 26, 2016. Two attackers invaded a church Tuesday during morning Mass near the Normandy city of Rouen, killing an 84-year-old priest by slitting his throat and taking hostages before being shot and killed by police, French officials said. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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Interim Ferguson, Mo., Police Chief Andre Anderson, right, talks with people Wednesday Oct. 28, 2015, outside the crime scene tape on the 7700 block of Paddington Dr., in Normandy, Mo. Authorities say a St. Louis-area officer who exchanged gunfire with an 18-year-old suspect never hit him, even as the suspect’s father questioned police claims that the suspect killed himself. Amonderez Green of Florissant died early Thursday, 14 hours after a confrontation with a Normandy officer. (Chris Lee/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

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Higgins boats deliver troops and equipment to Omaha Beach as Allied Forces storm Normandy, France, during Operation Overlord — a turning point in World War II. (Associated Press)

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Royal Air Force Coastal Command took this photo of Allied forces landing in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo)

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Troops on Utah Beach in Normandy, France on June 9, 1944, take shelter behind a sea wall while awaiting orders to move inland during the invasion by allied troops in June 1944. (AP Photo)

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In this image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, while under attack of heavy machine gun fire from the German coastal defense forces, these American soldiers wade ashore off the ramp of a U.S. Coast Guard landing craft, during the Allied landing operations at Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)