British Bombers Strike Normandy Gun Batteries Before D-Day, June 5, 1944
World War II: More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
Date: June 5, 1944
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