President Obama, along with other world leaders, surviving veterans and thousands of spectators, praised the Allied invaders of France in WWII who landed on the Normandy beaches in 1944, suffering great casualties, but gaining the necessary foothold for the conquest of Nazi occupied Europe and the collapse of the Nazi regime in 1945...
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The fleet of ships and boats transporting the Allied forces from Britain made up the largest armada in history to that time. President Obama's grandfather was one of the US soldiers to land on those beaches.