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21st Panzer 2nd Battalion 3rd Division 6th Airborne Division 8th Brigade Air Force airborne troops aircraft American amphibious antitank guns Armored Army Group Artillery ashore assault area Atlantic Wall attack battle beachhead Bénouville bombardment bombers bombs bridges British British 3rd Division Caen Calais Canadian capture Cherbourg Chief of Staff coast Colleville command Commando Brigade Corps Cotentin peninsula counterattack cover D-Day DD tanks defenses Dieppe Divisional Eisenhower enemy fell Field Marshal fighting fire France front gliders Hitler Inf Div Infantry Division invasion June landing craft Lieutenant Light Infantry machine guns Marcks Mère Eglise Merville battery miles Montgomery move naval Normandy obstacles Omaha Beach operations Orne Ouistreham Overlord Panzer Division Parachute Infantry Port en Bessin position pushed inland Ranville Regiment 1st Battalion Regt Rommel Royal Marine Rundstedt seaborne Seventh Army Sicily soldier squadrons St Lô strongpoint task took units Utah Beach von Rundstedt wave West yards