On This Day
D-Day
D-Day
June 6, 1944, D-Day was the beginning of the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944 and resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control.
D-Day was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history. Some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50 mile stretch of the French Normandy coast.
Some estimate, more than 4,000 Allied troops lost their lives in the D-Day invasion, with thousands more wounded or missing. There were over 2,000 American casualties.
Landing ships putting cargo ashore on Omaha Beach, at low tide during the first days of the operation.