Field of Operations DDay

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as DDay it was the largest seaborne invasion in history The operation began the liberation of Germanoccupied France and later western Europe and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front