D-Day Invasion Since early 1942, Soviet leader Josef Stalin had been urging a major new front in Western Europe to take some of the pressure off his troops, complaining that his soldiers were carrying too much of the burden. Thus far in the war, eighty percent of German military casualties had occurred at the hands of

ARMY.MIL Features On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which, “we will accept nothing less than full victory.&rdq

     Home / Battle of Normandy / Share     The Battle of Normandy From D-Day to D-Day + 84 : from June 6 to August 29, 1944 This chapter of the DDay-Overlord.com website allows you to discover the Battle of Normandy from day to day to understand the strategies and the stakes of the fights

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The Normandy landings (codenamed Operation Neptune) were the landing operation s on Tuesday, June (termed D-Day ) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II . The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi c