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Leader of the National Assembly Juan Guaid</span></p> <p> </p> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col2">    <div class="leftimg"> <img src="/app;jsessionid=8B6EF0B08F1C9AC287660850B343C135?fileid=30&height=226&service=thumbnail&width=556" alt="Black and white photo of U.S. troops landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy beaches, taken from inside the LCVT landing craft." id="fp_image"/> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="home"> Featured Place  </div> <h2 id="fp_title">D-Day Invasion Opens New Front in World War II</h2> <span id="fp_content"> <span><p>In the pre-dawn hours of June 6, 1944, the long-awaited invasion of Northern <a xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" href="/main/ViewPlace/43458">Europe</a> by Allied armed forces began with the landing of airborne troops in the <a xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" href="/main/ViewPlace/99815">Normandy </a>region of <a xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" href="/main/ViewPlace/46518">France</a>. They were followed by an air and sea bombardment and subsequent landings by seaborne troops on the Normandy seacoast. The <a xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" href="/main/ViewPlace/49464">German </a>forces occupied what was known as the "Atlantic Wall" of fortified positions and pre-sighted artillery. The landings were the largest such single-day operation ever, landing some 160,000 men, of whom over 4,000 were killed.</p></span> </span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.columbiagazetteer.org/main/ViewPlace/3/99818" id="fp_url">Read more...</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <div class="content"> <p><img src="/img/logo_footer.gif" width="254" height="10" alt="" /> <p> <a href="/static/tos">Terms of Service</a>   |   <a href="/static/privacy">Privacy Policy</a>   |   <a href="/static/registration">License and Registration</a>   |   <a href="/static/subscription">Subscription Information</a>   |   <a href="/static/about">About Columbia University Press</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"></script></body> </html>

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