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  1. Did you know that all of the Canadians who participated on were volunteers? Volunteerism is the theme of this year's races. The medal ribbon is inspired by the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal.

  2. Battle lines drawn, Decisions made, As they prepare to launch The Great Crusade. From our history books, The outcome, we know, But they had no certainty, Which way it would go. Men and machines Coiled like a spring, Await the order To go do their thing.

  3. 13 hours ago

    Hi guysss here is the D-Day Calendar emblems that I want to share with youuu 🏷 BTS D-DAY Emblems Kim Namjoon Rm Kim Seokjin Jin Min Yoongi Suga Jung Hoseok Jhope Park Jimin Jimin Kim taehyung V Jeon Jungkook Jk Bts 8th Anniversary Weverse Emblems

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  4. 21 hours ago

    77th D-Day anniversary serves as a reminder of American greatness.

  5. The displays I saw at Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery a few years ago upset me. I was there for the ceremony on the 6th and there was re-enactors. I had just given a talk about my great uncle who was killed at Juno on .

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  6. Jun 3

    LST’s & other vessels, at Fowey Harbor in Cornwall, get ready to head to Normandy for the D-Day Landings in June 1944. All of those seen here took part in operations at Omaha Beach. Life Magazine photo by David Scherman.

  7. 7 hours ago

    "They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate." - President Franklin D. Roosevelt's official address announcing the invasion

  8. 18 hours ago

    A Landing Craft Tank - LCT678 - in the Solent waiting to cross the Channel to take part in the D-Day landings at Gold Beach in the days before 6 June 1944. Image by Life Magazine photographer David Scherman.

  9. 13 hours ago

    Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery Not just the Portsmouth garrison commander but also allied force commander on d-day and during the Normandy campaign. Unveiled 24 years ago today.

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  11. One of our favourite photos ever...the late Pat Turner of 2 Oxf & Bucks pointing to his own name on the memorial we created and unveiled in 2009 and dedicated to Pat and his heroic comrades who spearheaded the entire invasion with the assault on Pegasus and Horsa Bridges.

  12. 13 hours ago

    Second museum of the week .... any excuse to get down to the coast. y

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  14. Jun 1

    🎶I think I've seen this film before and I didn't like the ending...🎶

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  16. Sunday marks the 77th anniversary of D-Day.

  17. 14 hours ago

    ‘On their way to embark for the beachhead. Bill, the mascot, who was not left behind,’ Censored press photo, released 9 June 1944. 79th Armoured Division. (Mirror via )

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  18. 10 hours ago

    On Sunday we mark 77 years since , but it might never have happened without one specific new technology; the resonant cavity magnetron. As Norm Fine explains, if it wasn't for this, then there would have been little chance of success in the ground campaign that was to come.

  19. 6 hours ago

    Grant's film along with Ross Munro's dispatches were rushed to the press. The Canadians scooped the hell out of .

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  20. 6 hours ago

    The Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit (CAFPU) was split into teams of photographers and cameramen for the Landings. This meant comprehensive coverage of both still photographs and films.

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