On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched the long-anticipated invasion of Normandy, France. Soldiers from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and other Allied nations faced Hitler's …

While the Overlord operation was a combined effort of land, sea, and air forces, the amphibious assault plan was given the code name Neptune.

This column is the first of three D-Day columns written by war correspondent Ernie Pyle describing the Allied invasion of Normandy.

The plan for the invasion of Normandy was unprecedented in scale and complexity. It called for American, British, and Canadian divisions to land on five beaches spanning roughly 60 miles. …

The Allied capture of Rome in June 1944 marked the fall of the first Axis capital but was ultimately overshadowed by the D-Day landings in Normandy.

Despite their early agreement on a strategy focused on defeating “Germany First,” the US and British Allies engaged in a lengthy and divisive debate over how exactly to conduct this …

Personnel and equipment arriving at Normandy by air and sea following the D-Day invasion in 1944. (National Archives and Records Administration, 26-G-2517.) Planners had divided the …

D-Day Timeline On June 6, 1944, Western Allied forces launched Operation Overlord, the massive Allied invasion of Normandy, France, to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe. The timeline …

Tonnage moved ashore during the first month of the Normandy Campaign. Operation Overlord was indeed an Allied effort to leverage the men, machines, and capabilities of the United …

2022年6月6日 · And there were things of aspects of the Normandy landings which weren't fully known and probably still aren't fully known, until many decades after the war. Dawn Hammatt …