On this day in history, June 6, 1944, US and Allies invade Normandy in greatest military invasion in history
from eight Allied countries and almost 133,000 troops from the United States, the British Commonwealth and Allies. In May 1944, the Western Allies were finally prepared to deliver their greatest, a cross-channel invasion of northern France, the National WWII Museum indicates, codenamed OVERLORD.
"It was here that Hitler had put the bulk of his panzer divisions after being tipped off by Allied undercover agents posing as German sympathizers that the invasion would take place in the Pas de Calais." On June 6, 1944, American soldiers are shown on a landing craft on their way to the Normandy beaches during the invasion of Europe.
American assault troops in a landing craft near a beachhead in northern France. The landing is supported by naval gunfire.
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