Saturday, June 6, 2020

D-Day: On This Day in History The Allies Stormed Normandy’s Coast


As History.com notes, on this day in history the WWII allies stormed the Normandy beaches.

On June 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of northern France, commonly known as D-Day

By daybreak, 18,000 British and American parachutists were already on the ground. An additional 13,000 aircraft were mobilized to provide air cover and support for the invasion. At 6:30 a.m., American troops came ashore at Utah and Omaha beaches

You can read the rest of the piece and view photos and a video via the below link:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/d-day?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2020-0606-06062020&om_rid=d7a6a4618fea152ee101c52ce6bad4d7f3138899598191c1d8e241260a87276f 

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