Five Brothers and a War

D-Day

The term “D-Day” was a common term used by the military to describe the start date of any operation when the specific date was not known. The preceding day would be “D Day-1”, the following day would be called “D-Day + 1” to allow planning sequences to be determined. Today, D-Day has only one meaning—June 6, 1944. The plans involved the armies of a number of nations, mainly the U.S., U.K. and Canada, but also Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, Holland, New Zealand, Norway and Poland. The operation generally involved attacking five beaches on the Normandy coastline, of which two were led by American forces (code named Utah and Omaha), two by British forces (Gold and Sword) and one by Canadian forces (Juno). D-Day has been extremely well-chronicled in movies, documentaries and in literature. Volumes of books have been written about it.

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The Google Earth view from Normandy, France, looking across the English Channel to England.

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