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A US paratrooper flashes the Victory sign after jumping over Sainte-Mere-Eglise, Normandy, during the ceremonies of the the D-Day's 68th anniversary on June 3, 2012. Some 156,000 Allied personnel landed in France on June 6, 1944 during the World War II. An estimated 10,000 Allied troops were left dead, wounded or missing, while Germany lost between 4,000 and 9,000, and thousands of French civilians were killed.