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5 giorni fa · D-Day would now be Tuesday 6 June. Churchill dined alone with his wife Clementine on the Monday evening and told her, “Do you realise that by the time you wake up in the morning 20,000 men may have been killed?” Churchill visits an anti-aircraft battery in Kent in June 1944. Credit: Fremantle / Alamy
1 giorno fa · The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day , it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.
- 6 June 1944
- Five Allied beachheads established in Normandy
- Allied victory
4 giorni fa · 6 June 1944 was the date of Operation Overlord, which saw tens of thousands of soldiers embark from Portsmouth to cross the Channel, establishing a foothold across the French coast in order...
1 giorno fa · Le rovine della cattedrale di Caen, Normandia, Francia, 1944 – K518207. Il nome D-Day, con cui oggi identifichiamo comunemente lo Sbarco in Normandia, ha assunto vari significati, come “Day-Day” o “Day of Days”, che testimoniano la centralità di questa operazione militare come punto di svolta nella Seconda guerra mondiale.
1 giorno fa · D-Day was known officially as ‘Operation Overlord’ and ‘Operation Neptune’, the latter referring to the seaborne element of the mission. It was launched on 6 June 1944 during the early hours of the morning when more than 150,000 airborne and ground troops landed across five assault beaches and drop zones along the Normandy coastline ...
3 giorni fa · D-Day in 90 seconds. On June 6, 1944, a critical operation took place that would become a pivotal point in World War II. This day is commonly known as D-Day, marking the beginning of the end of the war in Western Europe. The operation, codenamed Operation Overlord, was an immense and complex assault initiated by the Allied Expeditionary Force ...
3 giorni fa · June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through August 1944, this region became the most important location in the world.
