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Rangers led the way in the D-Day landings 80 years ago

  • Written by James Sandy, Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington
imageU.S. Army Rangers prepare to depart England for the D-Day invasion.Photo12/UIG/Getty Images

Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were 1,000 members of a new, specially trained unit – the U.S. Army Rangers.

Most of them fought across the German beachfront defenses,...

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