USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In May 1944, the Western Allies were finally prepared to deliver their greatest blow of the war, the long-delayed, cross-channel invasion of northern France, code-named Overlord. Primary Image: Soldiers coming ashore at Normandy on D-Day.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Battle of Stalingrad is often considered the turning point of WW2. In 1942, Hitler sent an army south in an attempt to capture the Soviet Russian city that had been renamed after the Soviet leader Josef Stalin.

Detailed explanation-3: -The war would not be over by Christmas. But D-Day had opened another major front, where the bulk of America’s rapidly expanding army could at last be brought to bear. It led to the liberation of France, denying Germany any further exploitation of that country’s economic and manpower resources.

Detailed explanation-4: -The ‘miracle of Dunkirk’ – the audacious rescue of more than 338, 000 British, French and Belgian forces from the beaches of a French port, as Germans forces closed in – is one of the most fabled chapters of the war.

Detailed explanation-5: -It was the largest invasion ever assembled, before or since, landed 156, 000 Allied troops by sea and air on five beachheads in Normandy, France. D-Day was the start of Allied operations which would ultimately liberate Western Europe, defeat Nazi Germany and end the Second World War.