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- D-Day (Operation Overlord)
- When D-Day took place their Atlantic wall was destroyed, heavy fights with great losses on both sides took place in the area around Normandie.
- The majority of troops who landed on the D-Day beaches were from the United Kingdom, Canada and the US. However, troops from many other countries participated in D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, in all the different armed services: Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Poland.
- On D-Day, the Allies landed around 156,000 troops in Normandy. The American forces landed numbered 73,000: 23,250 on Utah Beach, 34,250 on Omaha Beach, and 15,500 airborne troops. In the British and Canadian sector, 83,115 troops were landed (61,715 of them British): 24,970 on Gold Beach, 21,400 on Juno Beach, 28,845 on Sword Beach, and 7900 airborne troops.
- Operation Overlord
- Allies open a second front in France against the Germans
- Land on five beaches named Utah and Omaha (American) Juno (Canadian) Sword and Gold (British and Polish)
- Rommel felt that whoever won the beaches that day would win the war
- Allies open a second front in France against the Germans
- Land on five beaches named Utah and Omaha (American) Juno (Canadian) Sword and Gold (British and Polish)
- Rommel felt that whoever won the beaches that day would win the war
- From D-Day to the Fall of Berlin
- Battle for Normandy - summer 1944
- Falaise Gap
- Liberation of Paris
- Operation Market Garden - Sept. 1944 - Ploy to end the war before the Russians got to Berlin
- The Battle of the Bulge - German counteroffensive
- Russian attack on Berlin (300,000 Soviet troops)
- Hitler commits suicide in Bunker
- Russians and Americans meet
Summary:
D-Day involved the attack from the Allies against the Germans in France. They attacked five different beaches which include Utah, Omaha, Juno, Sword and Gold Beach. Rommel at this time had felt that whoever won the beaches that day would win in the war in the end. This was a very brutal day.