On This Day:  June 6

1944 -- Lack of plan­ning and abysmal­ly poor com­mu­ni­ca­tions re­sult in the Al­lied in­va­sion of France oc­cur­ring near­ly one hun­dred nau­ti­cal miles off tar­get of the Ger­mans' main de­fen­sive stronghold at Pas de Calais.

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