Battle of Normandy

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The Battle of Normandy was a major World War II Allied campaign in 1944 that began with the D-Day landings in northern France and led to the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi occupation.

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
11th Armoured Division → 1st Hussars ("Normandy landings") → 21st Panzer Division ("Normandy landings") → All American Division ("Normandy landings") → British 8th Armoured Brigade → Frederick Browning ("Normandy campaign") → Guards Armoured Division ("Normandy campaign") → I SS Panzer Corps ("Normandy campaign") → James M. Gavin ("Normandy landings") → Matthew Ridgway → Philip Vian ("Normandy landings") → RAF Second Tactical Air Force ("Normandy campaign") → RAF Second Tactical Air Force → Royal Winnipeg Rifles ("Normandy landings") → Royal Winnipeg Rifles → SS Jeremiah O’Brien ("Normandy landings") → The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada ("Normandy landings") → The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada → USS Arkansas ("Normandy landings") → VIII Corps (United Kingdom) →	participatedIn
1st Hussars ("Normandy 1944") → 51st (Highland) Division ("Normandy Campaign") → Coldstream Guards ("Normandy 1944") → Fort Garry Horse ("Normandy 1944") → Grenadier Guards ("Normandy Landings") → HMS Ajax ("Normandy 1944") → HMS Warspite ("Normandy 1944") → King's Own Scottish Borderers ("Normandy Landing") → Royal Berkshire Regiment ("Normandy 1944") → Royal Winnipeg Rifles ("Normandy Landing") → The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada ("Normandy 1944") → Welsh Guards ("Normandy 1944") →	battleHonour
2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade → 3rd Infantry Division ("Normandy landings, 1944") → 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division → 716th Infantry Division ("Normandy landings") → 716th Infantry Division → British 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division → Fallschirmjäger division ("Normandy Campaign") → VIII Corps (United Kingdom) ("Normandy campaign") →	notableEngagement
Battle for Caen ("Normandy campaign") → Battle of the Falaise Pocket → Battle of the Falaise Pocket ("Normandy campaign") → Omaha Beach ("Allied invasion of Normandy") → Operation Bluecoat → Operation Cobra ("Normandy campaign") → Operation Goodwood →	partOf
Army Group B ("Normandy campaign") → Canadian Army (pre‑1968) ("Normandy landings") → First United States Army ("Normandy campaign") → Fort Garry Horse ("Normandy campaign") → Hawker Typhoon ("Normandy landings") → Hawker Typhoon →	notableOperation
Army Group B ("Normandy campaign") → First Canadian Army ("Normandy campaign") → First Canadian Army → II SS Panzer Corps ("Normandy campaign") →	engagedIn
21st Panzer Division ("Normandy Campaign") → Patton's Third Army ("Normandy campaign") → Third United States Army ("Normandy campaign") → XXX Corps →	engagement
Allied operations in Western Europe ("Normandy landings") → Allied operations in Western Europe → Liberation of France ("Normandy campaign") → Liberation of France →	hasPart
2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade ("Normandy campaign") → British 8th Armoured Brigade ("Normandy campaign") → Operation Goodwood ("Normandy campaign") →	campaign
Liberation of Luxembourg → Retreat from Normandy → Retreat from Normandy ("Normandy landings") →	follows
7th Armoured Division ("Normandy landings") → Brian Horrocks → United States 2nd Infantry Division ("Normandy campaign") →	notableBattle
3rd Canadian Infantry Division ("Normandy campaign") → 3rd Canadian Infantry Division → British Second Army →	operation
Juno Beach Centre → No. 47 (Royal Marine) Commando ("Normandy landings") →	associatedWithEvent
3rd Infantry Division ("Normandy campaign") → British Commonwealth forces ("Normandy landings") →	conflict
Operation Bluecoat ("Normandy front") → Operation Lüttich ("Normandy campaign") →	front
Normandy → Sainte-Mère-Église →	historicalEvent
Ninth Air Force ("Normandy landings") → Ninth Air Force →	operationSupported
21st Panzer Division ("Normandy Campaign") → British 8th Armoured Brigade ("Normandy campaign") →	theatre
11th Armoured Division ("D-Day campaign") → USS LST-393 ("Normandy landings") →	tookPartIn
Operation Overlord →	alsoKnownAs
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal ("Normandy campaign") →	associatedCampaigns
Rendezvous With Destiny ("Normandy landings") →	associatedWith
Monty ("Normandy campaign") →	battle
Blues and Royals ("Normandy 1944") →	battleHonoursInclude
Normandy landings memorial ("Normandy landings") →	commemorates
Operation Overlord ("Normandy landings") →	component
Combined Chiefs of Staff ("Normandy landings") →	coordinatedOperation
War As I Knew It ("Normandy campaign") →	describesEvent
Corporal Henderson ("Normandy campaign") →	filmSettingConflict
Dieppe Raid ("Normandy landings") →	followedBy
No. 617 Squadron RAF ("Normandy 1944") →	hasBattleHonour
The Longest Day ("Normandy landings") →	mainSubject
Oberbefehlshaber West →	notableEvent
British Second Army ("Normandy landings") →	notableFor
21st Panzer Division ("Allied landings in Normandy") →	opposed
USS Nevada ("Normandy landings") →	participatedInOperation
Operation Bluecoat ("Normandy campaign") →	partOfCampaign
Lorraine campaign ("Normandy campaign") →	precededBy
Liberation of Belgium →	relatedTo
Mike and Nan sectors ("Normandy landings") →	usedDuring