Wreckage on British Beach – British Sector
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Wrecked landing craft, hit by the fire of German guns as they came ashore, litter the British invasion beaches. Such wreckage was scattered the length and breadth of the American, British and Canadian beaches at Normandy, and is the signature of a beach over which an amphibious landing encountered fierce resistance.
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- World War II 1939-1945
Navy Communities
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