D-Day: June 6, 1944 "The Longest Day"
Operation Overlord
Allies open a second front in France against the Germans
Land on five beaches named Utah and Omaha (American) Juno (Canadian) Sword and Gold (British and Polish)
Rommel felt that whoever won the beaches that day would win the war
From D-Day to the Fall of Berlin:
Battle for Normandy - summer 1944
Falaise Gap
Liberation of Paris
Operation Market Garden - Sept. 1944 - Ploy to end the war before the Russians got to Berlin
The Battle of the Bulge - German counteroffensive
Russian attack on Berlin (300,000 Soviet troops)
Hitler commits suicide in Bunker
Russians and Americans meet
Allies open a second front in France against the Germans
Land on five beaches named Utah and Omaha (American) Juno (Canadian) Sword and Gold (British and Polish)
Rommel felt that whoever won the beaches that day would win the war
From D-Day to the Fall of Berlin:
Battle for Normandy - summer 1944
Falaise Gap
Liberation of Paris
Operation Market Garden - Sept. 1944 - Ploy to end the war before the Russians got to Berlin
The Battle of the Bulge - German counteroffensive
Russian attack on Berlin (300,000 Soviet troops)
Hitler commits suicide in Bunker
Russians and Americans meet