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    Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western...
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  • Overlord is a 2018 American alternate history action horror film directed by Julius Avery and written by Billy Ray and Mark L. Smith. It stars Jovan Adepo...
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    renown for its role in Operation Overlord (the D-Day landings and airborne landings on 6 June 1944, in Normandy, France); Operation Market Garden; the liberation...
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    highest profile operation in 1944, apart from Operation Overlord, was providing the main force for Operation Market Garden. During the operation, American (82nd...
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    France (Operation Overlord), as Stalin had pressed them to do since 1941. Until then, Churchill had advocated the expansion of joint operations of British...
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    invasion, orders came in transferring Ranney back to Easy Company. For Operation Overlord, E Company's mission was to capture the entrances to and clear any...
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    operations. Operation Overlord was the codename for the Allied invasion of north-west Europe. The assault phase of Operation Overlord was known as Operation Neptune...
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    were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second...
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  • Cooper. Set during the Second World War, around the D-Day invasion (Operation Overlord), the film is about a young British soldier's experiences and his...
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    build submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel to support Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy during the Second World War. The...
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    The air war during Operation Overlord, alongside the Battle of Britain, the carrier battles in the Pacific and the strategic air war against the German...
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    historians, posing as an American journalist, ends up working for Operation Fortitude. Overlord, Underhand is a 2013 novel by American author Robert P. Wells...
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    6th Airborne Division between 5 June and 7 June 1944 as a part of Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings during the Second World War. The paratroopers...
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  • It is set during World War II, specifically during Operation Market Garden, Operation Overlord, the Battle of France, Battle of Crete, and the Battle...
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  • Saving Private Ryan (category Operation Overlord films)
    Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. Set in 1944 in Normandy, France, during...
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    Falaise pocket (category Operation Overlord)
    the remnants of Army Group B retreated across the Seine, completing Operation Overlord. Early Allied objectives in the wake of the D-Day invasion of German-occupied...
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    command. He was assigned a key role in Operation Fortitude, the Allies' military deception campaign for Operation Overlord. At the start of the Western Allied...
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    helped supervise the training for amphibious landing operations. As a major advisor in Operation Overlord, he was made the assistant division commander (ADC)...
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    Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and took command of subsequent operations in France. Following the success of Operation Overlord...
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    to use French resistance forces in covert operations against the Germans in advance of Operation Overlord. Admiral Ernest J. King fought with Eisenhower...
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    Operation Cobra was an offensive launched by the First United States Army under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley seven weeks after the D-Day landings,...
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    several major battles, including Operation Overlord in France[NB, Babe did not take part in Operation Overlord], Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands...
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  • raid, Bernal was determined that its mistakes not be repeated in Operation Overlord. He demonstrated the advantages of an artificial harbour to the participants...
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    system of the country in time for the launching of Operation Overlord on 6 June 1944. Following Overlord, further direct support was provided to the troop...
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    1944, the night before the Allied landings in Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord. The Jedburgh teams normally parachuted in by night to meet a reception...
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    during Operation Tonga, in conjunction with the D-Day landings of 6 June 1944 and in the airborne assault crossing of the River Rhine, Operation Varsity...
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    1944. Although initially designed to be executed in conjunction with Operation Overlord, the June 1944 Allied landing in Normandy, a lack of available resources...
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  • Pressure (upcoming film) (category Operation Overlord films)
    Pressure is an upcoming British historical drama film written and directed by Anthony Maras and co-written by David Haig, adapted from Haig’s 2014 stage...
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    Operation Lüttich (7–13 August 1944) was the codename of the Nazi German counter-attack during the Battle of Normandy, which occurred near U.S. positions...
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    September 1943 and shipped to Great Britain where they were prepared for Operation Overlord as part of six Ranger battalions of the Second World War. On 6 June...
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