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1. D-Day was the start of Operation 'Overlord' - the Allied invasion of Occupied Europe. EA 51048. Troops of the US 7th Corps wading ashore on Utah Beach. On D-Day, 6 June 1944, Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. Codenamed Operation 'Overlord', the Allied landings on the Normandy beaches marked the start of a long and costly campaign to liberate north-west Europe from German occupation.
D-Day was one of the major events of World War Two. D-Day saw a vast Allied armada deliver 100,000âs of soldiers to the shores of Normandy at the start of the drive to Berlin. D-Day itself was on June 6th 1944. The planning for D-Day began in 1943 at the Quebec Conference in Canada. The planned invasion was given the code-word âOverlordâ.