WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE D DAY INVASION
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France
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Great Britain
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Ireland
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Iceland
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Detailed explanation-1: -Normandy Invasion, also called Operation Overlord or D-Day, during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944 (the most celebrated D-Day of the war), with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France.
Detailed explanation-2: -2300, 5 June 1944 Around this time the British and American airborne troops begin taking off from bases in England. They will be the first Allied soldiers to land in Normandy, by glider and parachute, in the early hours of the following morning.
Detailed explanation-3: -Exercise Tiger was the code name for one in a series of large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, which took place in April 1944 on Slapton Sands in Devon.
Detailed explanation-4: -On D-Day, 6 June 1944, Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France.