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| Infantry marching along Weymouth Esplanade
to embark to embarkation points |
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Possibly the greatest event ever seen in
Portland Harbour was the embarkation of American forces prior
to D-Day in 1944.
On the 6th June hundreds of thousands of allied
soldiers landed on the coast of occupied France. In the leading
wave were 2 British, 1 Canadian and 2 US Divisions. It was
one of the latter, the US 1st Division (The Big Red One) that
embarked at Portland and Weymouth harbours.
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