How D-Day Unfolded On June 6, 1944

US soldiers prepare to land on Utah Beach in Normandy, France, on D-Day, June 6, 1944 (AFP Photo)

AFP: How the longest day unfolded

Paris (AFP) - June 6, 1944 is known as "the longest day". By its end 156,000 Allied troops and 20,000 vehicles had invaded Nazi-occupied northern France in a defining moment of World War II.

Here is a chronology, in local time, of the historic event that heralded the Nazi defeat.

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