D-day
- June.6, 1944
- Operation Overlord
- Allies open a second front in France against Germans
- Allies left from southern Britain, met in Piccadilly Circus (in English Channel)
- Land on five beaches in Normandy
- Utah & Omaha (American)
- Juno (Canadian)
- Sword & Gold (British, Free French & Polish)
- Germans set up defensive measures to stop Allies from storming the beaches
- Rommel felt that this was Germans last chance to fight
- whoever won the beaches that day would win the war
- Allies operation successful
Summery
D-day was the largest cordinated attack made by all the allied forces everyone took huge losses but made huge gains. Operation overlord was a successes and the beaches of normandy where won by the allies