It was the day when 150,000 allied troops, mostly American, British and Canadian troops, arrived in Normandy, France to repel Nazi German forces, who were occupying parts of Europe. Much of the ...
The D-Day landing — when, on June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, to begin the operation that would liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s ...