On June 6, 1944, during World War II, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on D-Day as they began the liberation of German-occupied Western Europe. The D-Day invasion that helped change the course of World War II was unprecedented in scale and audacity. Over 156,000 Allied troops landed
On June 6, 1944, thousands of allies stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, marking the "beginning of the end" of World War II. Operation Overlord, or D-Day would go down in history as the largest seaborne invasion in history.