D-Day had arrived!

The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. The landings started on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (D-day).

D-Day is used to refer to June 6, 1944, the day that began the Operation Overlord. In this operation, the main goal was to carry out a large landing on the beaches of Normandy as a strategy to end with the Nazis.

Allied forces rehearsed their roles for D-Day months before the invasion. But in June 6, of 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50 mile French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy in France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy.

The original date for the assault on Normandy was set for June 5, 1944; but the weather and the sea made the Allied supreme commander Dwight D. Eisenhower postponed it until June 6, giving them more time to review their acts, that date has been popularly referred to ever since by the short title "D-Day". Because of this latter date is popularly known as the small day D. The term D-Day is used to indicate the day to start an attack or operation. "The armed forces used codenames to refer to the planning and execution of specific military operations. Operation Overlord was the codename for the Allied invasion of northwest Europe. The assault phase of Operation Overlord was known as Operation Neptune..."

The total number of troops landed on D-Day was around 130,000-156,000 roughly half American and the other from the Commonwealth Realms.

The D-Day damage was very high, more than 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or injured but more than 100,000 soldiers began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler.

This day, when Allied troops penetrated into the French coast, marked the beginning of the liberation of Western Europe occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II.

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