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On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed a heavily-fortified French coastline fighting Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy.d day help gain control in Continental Europe.
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On August 6, 1945 an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki.
the bombs killed tousands of people.