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Eisenhower told his forces: “You are about to embark on a great crusade”. The first wave of infantry and armored troops, commanded by Montgomery, crossed the choppy English Channel under an overcast sky. On June 6, 1944 at Bernieres-Sur-Mer , France hundreds of thousands of troops came ashore to liberate Europe from Nazi rule. The Normandy invasion, the greatest amphibious operation in history, was opening phase of Operation Overload, but not everything went to plan. British, Canadians and Americans assembled almost three million men, had stored sixteen million short tons of supplies in Britain for the great invasion. The allies had 5,000 large ships, 4,000 smaller landing craft and more than 11,000 aircraft.
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