HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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D-Day
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V-E Day
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Battle of the Bulge
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Battle of the Atlantic
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Detailed explanation-1: -Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156, 000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many people think they know the answer: designated day, decision day, doomsday, or even death day. In other words, the D in D-Day merely stands for Day. This coded designation was used for the day of any important invasion or military operation.
Detailed explanation-3: -1. D-Day was the start of Operation ‘Overlord’ On D-Day, 6 June 1944, Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. The ‘D’ in D-Day stands simply for ‘day’ and the term was used to describe the first day of any large military operation.
Detailed explanation-4: -June 6, 1944, is the day when more than 160, 000 Allied forces landed in Nazi-occupied France as part of the biggest air, land and sea invasion ever executed.
Detailed explanation-5: -After the evacuation from Dunkirk in 1940 the Allies knew that to end the Second World War they had to land powerful forces in German-occupied Europe. Four years later on D-Day these landings took place.