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To prepare for the landings, the Americans shipped 7 million tons of supplies from the U.S. to a staging area in England. Among the haul was 450,000 tons of ammunition.
[Pictured: An ambulance is loaded at Portland Harbor in Dorset, England, on June 5, 1944.]
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