"I thought many times the 'D' in D-Day meant death day," said World War II veteran Arnold Lambert.
Lambert was among the 160,000 Allied troops that stormed the heavily German-fortified French coastline in Normandy on June 6, 1944. Friday marks the 70th anniversary of the largest seaborne invasion in history — in which more than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft were sent to infiltrate occupied France.
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The video above shows rare footage from D-Day and powerful recollections from veterans who were on the battlefield.