Lt PE Reeve lights a cigarette for Corporal Rodgers as they come ashore to Britain following the Normandy landing. They were sent home after receiving severe burns.
 
These were two of over 10,000 allied casualties with 4,414 confirmed dead. D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France from Nazi control, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.
 
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