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Final conference at Montgomerys HQ in St Pauls School
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Presents the final plan to senior commanders, the King, Smuts & Churchill at St Pauls. Expresses his belief that that Allied tanks will reach Falaise on D-Day
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Subordinate commanders are informed D-Day will be 5th June
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Commands infantryman who land by glider & capture 2 bridges codenamed Pegasus & Horsa
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Announces an imminent Allied assault on the coast of France in the Commons
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The highest tonnage of bombs in one night during the war is dropped by Britain. Dummy parachutists are dropped just east of the intended landing area. 176,000 men & 20,000 vehicles are to be landed in 2 days. 1,000 British bombers strike 10 German gun batteries, 5,000 tons of bombs are dropped
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Commands 137 warships, 4,000 landing craft & 2,000 support ships
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Commands the British 30th Corps on Gold beach
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Rennie's division landed on Sword Beach with orders to advance rapidly toward Caen.
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Parachutes behind enemy lines & helps disable gun emplacements at Merville
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Parachutes behind enemy lines & captures Benouville, including Pegasus Bridge
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At about 9:30 Hermanville is captured
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Sets up an HQ at Ranville
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Parachutes behind enemy lines & helps secure Pegasus Bridge
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Parachutes behind enemy lines disabling gun emplacements threatening Sword Beach
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Crocker's I Corps directed the British and Canadian assault formations advancing toward Caen.
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Dempsey commanded the British Second Army landing east of Bayeux and advancing toward Caen.
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Captures the Islands of St Marcouf off Utah beach
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Leads the infantry capture of 2 bridges codenamed Pegasus & Horsa. 1st Allied death in Normandy
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1st day of the bombing of Caen
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To the east, Rommels nightmare had been realised, a continuous British-Canadian beachhead, 20km (12 miles) across and up to 10km (six miles) deep. By midnight neither Bayeux nor Port-en-Bessin had been taken, the depleted American force was several kilometres short of Port-en-Bessin but the French Resistance had taken over Bayeux
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Royal Marine Commandos land on Gold Beach & capture Arromanches
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The British capture Bayeaux
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Montgomery directed the Allied ground campaign and treated Caen as the principal objective of the British Second Army.
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The British 3rd Division fails to capture Caen
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