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On This Day May 20, 1969 – The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
Did You Know: U.S. losses during the ten-day battle totaled 72 KIA and 372 WIA. To take the position, the 101st Airborne Division eventually committed five infantry battalions and ten batteries of artillery. In addition, the U.S. Air Force flew 272 missions and expended more than 500 tons of ordnance. U.S. claimed the 7th and 8th Battalions of the 29th NVA Regiment suffered 630 dead (discovered on and around the battlefield); including many found in makeshift mortuaries within the tunnel complex.
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On This Day May 20, 1940 – Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
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On This Day May 19, 1943 – World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the Normandy landings ("D-Day"). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.
Photo Caption: American combat engineers eat a meal atop boxes of ammunition stockpiled for the impending D-Day invasion, May 1944.
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