- Date
- June 6, 1944 – July 1, 1944
- Location
- Northern France
- Result
- Allied victory
- Part of
- Operation Overlord
- Conflict
- World War II
About the battle
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 (D-Day) with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune). A 1,200-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving more than 5,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on 6 June, and more than two million Allied troops were in France by the end of August. The decision to undertake cross-channel landings in 1944 was made at the Trident Conference in Washington, D.C. in May 1943. American General Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed commander of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, and British General Bernard Montgomery was named commander of the 21st Army Group, which comprised all the land forces involved in the operation.
From the Wikipedia article “Operation Overlord”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Result, date and location from the article’s infobox and Wikidata.
