Normandy Beach, France
June 6: Normandy Invasion!
Operation OVERLORD, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, lands troops on “Omaha Beach,” Normandy, France June 6, 1944… commences long–awaited historic Allied sea and land (and air) assault on Nazi occupied Europe… largest sea invasion in history, employing over 155,000 Allied troops crossing the English Channel from Dover, England to Normandy, France…and commences multi–front military drive north–eastwards onwards through France and Belgium into Germany and then onward heading towards Berlin; five plus months after Normandy, on December 26, 1944, “force of nature” Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army closes–in on the counter–sieging German lines at Bastogne (Belgium), forcing their hand and essentially sealing the fate of the Third Reich, which will go through its death–throes over the subsequent four months…caught in a mortal vise between the onslaughts of the American, British and Red invasion forces.