Here are some key facts about D-Day ahead of the 79th anniversary of the World War II invasion

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More than 2 million Allied soldiers, sailors, pilots, medics and other people from a dozen countries were involved in the overall Operation Overlord. That was the codename for the battle to wrest western France from Nazi control that started on D-Day.

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