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How To Locate D-Day Footage in NARA’s Moving Image Holdings

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In what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history, the operation, codenamed Overlord , was the beginning of the liberation of Northern Europe from Nazi occupation. Among the Allied troops involved in the invasion were soldiers , sailors, pilots, medics, members of the Red Cross, news reporters, and combat cameramen.