D-Day - 6 June 1944 - was the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare. The statistics of D-Day, codenamed Operation Overlord, are staggering.

Commemorating D-Day's 80th Anniversary · 9. There are only a tiny number of D-Day veterans alive today · 8. Injuries during and after D-Day were often horrific.

Commonwealth personnel, nearly all British and Canadian, outnumbered the Americans on D-day. Of the 156,000 men landed in France on 6 June, 73,000 were American ...

See how much you know about the largest amphibious assault in history, a turning point for the US and Allied forces in World War II.

4 июн. 2024 г. · 1. D-Day was supposed to happen a day earlier · 2. 'H-Hour' is when the operation was set to begin · 3. Normandy was seen as an unlikely point for ...

6 июн. 2024 г. · 1. We still may not know exactly how many people died · 2. What the D stands for · 3. The weather forced a last-minute date change · 4. Where to ...

17 мая 2023 г. · More than 156,000 Allied ground troops stormed the beaches. US troops went ashore on the landing beaches at 6.31am in wave after wave of landing ...

Amphibious landing craft were used to transport troops and vehicles from ships to the beaches. Specially designed tanks had been made that could travel over ...

3 июн. 2024 г. · The Allies took approximately 10,250 casualties on D-Day - a number that includes killed, wounded and missing servicemen, according to the ...