The Sixth of June
Cross-Channel Attack
The Airborne Assault
The time and place at least of the "large-scale landing" caught the Germans wholly by surprise.
Hitting the Beaches
While U.S. airborne troops dropped on the Cotentin and British paratroopers landed near Caen, the invasion fleet was bringing the main body of the Allied armies to the shores of Normandy.
In these first few hours on OMAHA Beach, the OVERLORD operation faced its gravest crisis.
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