WORLD 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: -D-Day marked the turn of the tide for the control maintained by Nazi Germany; less than a year after the invasion, the Allies formally accepted Nazi Germany’s surrender. D-Day was a day that cost many lives on all sides of the conflict, changing not only the future of countries, but of families as well.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-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.

Detailed explanation-6: -It is commonly stated in this context that there were three turning point battles, following which the Allies gained the offensive: Midway, El-Alamein, and Stalingrad.