{"id":80257,"date":"2023-06-03T02:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=80257"},"modified":"2023-06-02T08:11:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T12:11:49","slug":"why-was-normandy-selected-for-d-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/06\/03\/why-was-normandy-selected-for-d-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Was Normandy Selected For D-Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sYXYG_F1EK0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Real Engineering<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 28 Mar 2020<\/p>\n<p>In the debut episode of the Logistics of D-Day we explore the logic and planning that resulted in Normandy being chosen 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