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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.
The plan for Operation Overlord entailed landing nine divisions of sea and airborne troops, over 150,000 men, along a 60-mile stretch of coast in just 24 hours. On D-Day, three airborne divisions, one British and two American, would drop behind the landing beaches.-Day was scheduled for June 5, 1944. But on the eve of the invasion, as the air and sea armada began to assemble, a storm arose in the English Channel. It threatened the success of the operation.