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The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day (after the military term ), it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.
English: Normandy Breakout Map, operations 25 July to 15 August 1944 Based on map Normandybreakout.jpg - number 64 from The Department of History at the United States Military Academy Date 20 February 2024
The Third Army's XV Corp drove from Meyenne South to Le Mans and then North to Argentan by 12 August 1944 where the Battle of the Falaise Pocket was developing against the German Seventh Army. The next day, the 5th U.S. Armored Division of XV U.S. Corps, advanced 35 mi (56 km) and reached positions overlooking Argentan. [ 3 ]
As late as 2003 a prominent history (Airborne: A Combat History of American Airborne Forces by retired Lieutenant General E.M. Flanagan) repeated these and other assertions, all of it laying failures in Normandy at the feet of the pilots. [3] This criticism primarily derived from anecdotal testimony in the battle-inexperienced 101st Airborne.
On June 6, 1944, the world was forever changed. World War II had already been raging around the globe for four years when the planning for Operation Neptune -- what we now know as "D-Day" -- began ...
Major and Mrs Holt's Pocket Battlefield Guide to Normandy Landing Beaches. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 978-1-84884-079-9. Joslen, Hubert F. (2003) [1960]. Orders of Battle, United Kingdom and Colonial Formations and Units in the Second World War, 1939–1945. Uckfield: Naval & Military Press. ISBN 1-843424-74-6. Marie, Henri (2004) [1993].
American and Allied forces prepare for landing on Normandy beaches in France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. ... They battle German forces and clear exits for U.S. infantry landing on Utah Beach.
The Falaise pocket or battle of the Falaise pocket (German: Kessel von Falaise; 12–21 August 1944) was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War. Allied forces formed a pocket around Falaise, Calvados , in which German Army Group B , consisting of the 7th Army and the Fifth Panzer Army (formerly Panzergruppe ...