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About 30,000 members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force took part in Operation Overlord. Squadrons of New Zealand fighters and bombers flew in every phase, with the fighters performing with particular efficacy above Omaha Beach on D-Day. Some 4,000 officers and men of the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve also took part in Operation Neptune. On D-Day many of New Zealand's junior officers commanded either landing craft delivering troops to the British beaches or one of the numerous motor torpedo boats interdicting German E-boats.
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