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A jacket, a coin, a letter − relics of Omaha Beach battle tell the story of D-Day 80 years later

  • Written by Frank A. Blazich Jr., Curator of Military History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
imageOne of war photographer Robert Capa's images shows a wave of troops arriving on the Normandy beaches on D-Day.Robert Capa via National Museum of American History

Between the villages of Vierville-sur-Mer and Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes in Normandy, France, is a 5-mile stretch of beach that was once called Côte d’Or, or “golden...

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