In the first wave to hit the beach, troops were met by withering German gunfire. But they kept pushing and established a small beachhead from which the invasion could continue.
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Professor of History, Boston University
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Emeritus Professor of History, University of Toronto
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Curator of Military History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
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Professor of History; Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University
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Oral Historian, Department of History, University of Texas at Arlington
