Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western ...

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Britain and its Second World War allies had been planning the biggest, most audacious air and seaborne invasion in history: D-Day. Since 1940 most of Western Europe had been occupied by Nazi Germany.

And it bears something else: invasion stripes—the black and white alternating bands on its wings and fuselage—applied for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. It may be the only remaining ...