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Remembering the wheels that turned on D-Day: Flickr photo of the day

D-Day, June 6, 1944
D-Day, June 6, 1944

Sixty-eight years ago today, some 160,000 Allied troops landed on the shores of France to begin the end of World War II. The U.S. Army keeps a set of snapshots from that day online; you can also read about some of the lesser-known stories of D-Day, such as how the Army managed to fuel the thousands of vehicles it sent ashore over a matter of days.