Normandy landings
Allied French assault
The Normandy landings were the Allied amphibious assault on Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944—D-Day.
American, British, Canadian, and other Allied forces landed on five beaches along the Normandy coast, establishing the Western Front that would lead to Germany's defeat.
The largest seaborne invasion in history, it marked the beginning of the liberation of Western Europe.
- Atlantic WallWWII coastal fortification network
- Operation OverlordWWII cross-channel assault codename
- D-Day1944 Normandy invasion
- beachheadSecured landing zone
- English ChannelAnglo-French strait
World War II · Omaha Beach · Utah Beach · amphibious assault · paratroopers · French Resistance · Juno Beach · Montgomery · Erwin Rommel · naval bombardment · airborne operations · Band of Brothers · Gold Beach · Sword Beach · German occupation · amphibious vehicles · Eisenhower · foxholes
- WWIID-Day, Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, Holocaust, atomic bomb
- NormandyRouen, Cherbourg, Dieppe, Bayeux Tapestry, Mont Saint-Michel
- Wartime FranceVichy France, Free France, Free French, French Resistance, de Gaulle
Normandy landingsDunkirk evacuation
Military withdrawal from France
Dunkirk · retreat from Moscow · strategic withdrawal · Battle of the Bulge
Normandy landingsOperation Barbarossa
Nazi Soviet invasion
invasion of Poland · Battle of Britain · Pearl Harbor attack