The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious ...

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.

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord

22 December 1941 – 14 January 1942. At the Washington Conference, Britain and the US agree a strategy of 'Europe first' – in other words, that they will ...

In the course of the daring invasion on June 6, 1944, nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed by sea and air on the heavily fortified French coastline. More than ...

June 6th, 1944: More than 150,000 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy, France, as part of the largest seaborne invasion in history.

June 6, 1944. In the early hours of June 6, under the cover of darkness, American and British paratroopers dropped into Normandy from more than 1,200 aircraft.

The D-Day invasion was actually planned for the 5 June, however, in true British fashion, the weather was too bad for the ships to set sail. It was therefore ...

The best-known D-Day is during World War II, on June 6, 1944—the day of the Normandy landings—initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate western Europe ...

D-Day, 6 June 1944, marked the start of the Allied invasion of Normandy, the greatest amphibious operation in history.