D-Day

Author: Nigel Cawthorne
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This was a great day, the D-Day of the anti-Fascist Allied forces—the largest and most meticulously planned amphibious landing operation in human history officially kicked off. At dawn on June 6, 1944, thousands of Allied troops (mainly from the United States, Britain, Canada, Free France, and Poland) successfully landed on the beaches of Normandy and broke through the German defensive line, the "Atlantic Wall." By midnight, more than 150,000 Allied troops had successfully landed and advanced toward Berlin, marking the beginning of the collapse of Nazi Germany.