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Never to late to say thank you! Originally shared by Google UK Remembering D-Day. Today on google.co.uk we remember the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. On the Google Cultural Institute you'll find archives from the time including letters, photos, and maps of the Normandy landings: http://goo.gl/1RvU5w #DDay70   #Europe

Excellent idea agents and well carried out. Originally shared by Julien CONSEIL #D-DAY70th Operation FRANCE - Normandy 44 agents 34 portals 61 links 30 fields “Les sanglots longs, des violons, de l’automne, blessent mon cœur d’une langueur monotone…” (2 days before the attack, the BBC informs the French resistance of the imminent Normandy landing by the diffusion of a verse from a Verlaine poem). We are two days before the longest day... Birth of the project A group of Resistance agents suggested to perform the first cross-faction field art in Normandy to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Normandy Landing Day also called the D-Day (June 6, 1944 - June 6, 2014). Both enlightened and resistance agents were excited with the idea and some projects were proposed (Lorraine Cross, Write D-DAY, …) but the final decision was to draw the dove of freedom and write the number 70. Description of the project The fields will cover both the lower and upper Normandy, from Le Rosel to Rouen ...