World War II: D-Day

Reference

• Background & Overview
  • Operation Overlord
• Eisenhower's Speech to Troops on D-Day
• German Infantry at Omaha Beach
• President Roosevelt Press Conference
• The Speech Eisenhower Prepared If Normandy Invasion Failed

Maps

• Plan for Operation Overload
• Allied Landings at Normandy (June 6)
• Allied Invasion of Normandy (June 6-12)
  • Utah Beach (June 6)
  • Omaha Beach (June 6)
  • German Defenses at Omaha Beach (June 6)
• The Allied Capture of Cherbourg (June 13-30)
• Expanding the Beachheads (July 1-24)