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    Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western...
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  • Overlord is a 2018 American alternate history action horror film directed by Julius Avery and written by Billy Ray and Mark L. Smith. It stars Jovan Adepo...
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    The Overlord planners for the invasion of Europe in 1944 specified suitable weather (wind, cloud, tidal and moon conditions) for the assault landing; with...
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    highest profile operation in 1944, apart from Operation Overlord, was providing the main force for Operation Market Garden. During the operation, American (82nd...
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    invasion, orders came in transferring Ranney back to Easy Company. For Operation Overlord, E Company's mission was to capture the entrances to and clear any...
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    France (Operation Overlord), as Stalin had pressed them to do since 1941. Until then, Churchill had advocated the expansion of joint operations of British...
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    the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World...
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    the first village to be liberated by the United States Army during Operation Overlord on June 6, 1944. On the night before D-Day (June 6, 1944), American...
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  • and the Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during Operation Overlord. The fighting saw Australian infantry from 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian...
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    Seine north of Paris. The Seine was one of the original objectives of Operation Overlord in 1944. The Allies' intention was to reach the Seine by 90 days after...
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    build submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel to support Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy during the Second World War. The...
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  • Saving Private Ryan (category Operation Overlord films)
    Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. Set in 1944 in France during World War II...
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    operations. Operation Overlord was the codename for the Allied invasion of north-west Europe. The assault phase of Operation Overlord was known as Operation Neptune...
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    Operation Lüttich (7–13 August 1944) was the codename of the Nazi German counter-attack during the Battle of Normandy, which occurred near U.S. positions...
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  • It is set during World War II, specifically during Operation Market Garden, Operation Overlord, the Battle of France, Battle of Crete, and the Battle...
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    6th Airborne Division between 5 June and 7 June 1944 as a part of Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings during World War II. The paratroopers and glider-borne...
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  • abandoned due to Operation Overlord; the linseed cakes were destroyed via incinerators in 1945. Efforts to research the feasibility of Operation Vegetarian...
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    historians, posing as an American journalist, ends up working for Operation Fortitude. Overlord, Underhand is a 2013 novel by American author Robert P. Wells...
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    The air war during Operation Overlord, alongside the Battle of Britain, the carrier battles in the Pacific and the strategic air war against the German...
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    also served in peacetime with the 2nd Infantry Division, and deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom. The World War II actions of Company E ("Easy Company")...
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    Operation Cobra was an offensive launched by the First United States Army under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley seven weeks after the D-Day landings,...
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    helped supervise the training for amphibious landing operations. As a major advisor in Operation Overlord, he was made the assistant division commander (ADC)...
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    Falaise pocket (category Operation Overlord)
    the remnants of Army Group B retreated across the Seine, completing Operation Overlord. Early Allied objectives in the wake of the D-Day invasion of German-occupied...
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    and proved himself in several major battles, including Operation Overlord in France, Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands, and the Battle of the...
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    command. He was assigned a key role in Operation Fortitude, the Allies' military deception campaign for Operation Overlord. At the start of the Western Allied...
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    Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and took command of subsequent operations in France. Following the success of Operation Overlord...
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    to use French resistance forces in covert operations against the Germans in advance of Operation Overlord. Admiral Ernest J. King fought with Eisenhower...
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    of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of north-west Europe. Preceded by Operation Martlet to secure the right flank of the advance, Operation Epsom...
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    for the British 3rd Infantry Division in the early phases of Operation Overlord. Operation Perch was to begin immediately after the British beach landings...
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    1944. Although initially designed to be executed in conjunction with Operation Overlord, the Allied landing in Normandy, a lack of available resources led...
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