The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France (and later western Europe) and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.
Normandy landingsPart of Operation Overlord and the Western Front of World War II
Men of the 16th Infantry Regiment, US 1st Infantry Division wading ashore on Omaha Beach on the morning of 6 June 1944Date6 June 1944Location
Normandy, France
49°20′N 0°34′WResultAllied victory[8]Territorial
changesFive Allied beachheads established in NormandyBelligerentsAllies
 United Kingdom[1]
 United States[1]
 Canada[1]
 France[2]
 Australia[3]
 Czechoslovakia[4]
 Poland[2]
 Belgium[5]
 Netherlands[5]
 Norway[2]
 New Zealand[1]
 Greece[6]
 Germany[7]Commanders and leaders
 Bernard Montgomery
 Miles Dempsey
 Trafford Leigh-Mallory
 Bertram Ramsay
 Arthur Tedder
 Dwight D. Eisenhower
 Omar Bradley
 Gerd von Rundstedt
 Erwin Rommel
 Hugo Sperrle
 Karl Dönitz
 Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg
 Friedrich Dollmann
 Hans von Salmuth
 Wilhelm Falley †
Units involved First Army
Omaha Beach:
V Corps
1st Infantry Division
29th Infantry Division
Utah Beach:
VII Corps
4th Infantry Division
82nd Airborne Division
90th Infantry Division
101st Airborne Division
 Second Army
Gold Beach
XXX Corps
50th Infantry Division
Juno Beach
I Corps
3rd Canadian Infantry Division
Sword Beach
I Corps
3rd Infantry Division
6th Airborne Division
 5th Panzer Army
South of Caen
 21st Panzer Division
 7th Army
Omaha
 352nd Infantry Division
Utah Beach
 709th Static Division
Gold, Juno, and Sword

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