domingo, junho 06, 2004

BATTLE OF NORMANDY

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The Battle of Normandy in 1944, codenamed Operation Overlord, was the invasion of Nazi occupied Western Europe by the Allies. Sixty years later, the Normandy invasion remains the largest seaborne invasion in history, when almost three million troops crossed the English Channel from England to Normandy in occupied France.

The Normandy invasion began with overnight paratrooper landings, massive air and naval bombardments, and an early-morning amphibious assault. The battle for Normandy continued over more than two months, with campaigns to establish, expand, and eventually break out of the Allied beachheads. It concluded with the surrender of Paris and the fall of the Chambois pocket.

Normandy is to this day one of the best-known battles of World War II. In common language, the expression 'D-Day' is still used to refer to the D-Day (the starting date) of the invasion, and the opening day of the Battle of Normandy: June 6, 1944.


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