D-Day

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. The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. Normandy landings Part of Operation Overlord and the Western Front of the Second World War Into the Jaws of Death: men of the 16th Infantry Regiment wade ashore on Omaha Beach Date 6 June 1944; 80 years ago Location Normandy, France 49.34°N 0.60°W Result Allied victory[8] Territorial changes Five Allied beachheads established in Normandy Belligerents Allies: United Kingdom United States Canada France[1] Australia[2] Czechoslovakia[3] Polish government-in-exile Poland[1] Netherlands[4] Norway[1] New Zealand[5] Greece[6] South Africa[7] Southern Rhodesia[7] Germany Commanders and leaders S.H.A.E.F.: United States Dwight D. Eisenhower 21st Army Group: United Kingdom Bernard Montgomery First Army: United States Omar Bradley United States J. Lawton Collins United States Matthew B. Ridgway United States Leonard T. Gerow United States Clarence R. Huebner Second Army: United Kingdom Miles Dempsey United Kingdom Gerard Bucknall United Kingdom Douglas Graham United Kingdom John Crocker United Kingdom Percy Hobart Commander-in-Chief: Nazi Germany Gerd von Rundstedt Army Group B: Nazi Germany Erwin Rommel 5th Panzer Army: Nazi Germany L. Schweppenburg Nazi Germany Edgar Feuchtinger Nazi Germany H. Oppeln-Bronikowski Nazi Germany Hans von Luck 7th Army: Nazi Germany Friedrich Dollmann Nazi Germany Erich Marcks Nazi Germany Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben Nazi Germany Dietrich Kraiss Nazi Germany Wilhelm Richter Units involved United States First Army United Kingdom Second Army Nazi Germany 5th Panzer Army