D-Day and the Normandy landings
Operation Overlord began with airborne assaults and amphibious landings across five Normandy beaches, creating the Allied bridgehead for the campaign in north-west Europe.
Why D-Day and the Normandy landings matters
Operation Overlord began with airborne assaults and amphibious landings across five Normandy beaches, creating the Allied bridgehead for the campaign in north-west Europe.
This page brings together database records matching D-Day, Normandy landings and Operation Overlord. Use the chronological results to compare dates, people, places, countries and related events without losing the wider historical sequence.
Sources and provenance
Historical records on this page are drawn from the World History Database maintained by Malcolm Badley and are selected dynamically using the research terms shown above. The historical image is credited to its source above. Record wording and dates should be checked against primary or specialist secondary sources when used for academic citation. Corrections can be sent to [email protected].