(AP Photo) Here is a look at D-Day. ... German prisoners of war, in the battle for France, carry a wounded comrade to an evacuation area on the beach where landing craft will speed them out to ships in the English Channel for treatment by Allied doctors on June 15, 1944. ... By the end of d-day, the allies had achieved their main goal of carving out a beachhead along the Normandy coast. However, bad weather and heavy seas caused General Dwight D. Eisenhower to delay until June 6. In the military, D-Day is the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. Allied troops invaded Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, to fight Nazi Germany in World War II.. Facts The largest amphibious (land and water) invasion in history. The WW2 Paratrooper: First-Hand Accounts of the D-Day Invasion; Band of Brothers’ Buck Compton: One Man’s Call of Duty; Battle of Graignes: An HQ Company’s Heroic Last Stand in Normandy; The Amazing Voyages of the USS O’Brien; From Paratrooper to POW: Bob Nobles of the 82nd Airborne They were then to move inland, with the Canadians and the British pushing south towards Caen. The eldest was the heroic HMS Warsipte commissioned in 1915 and a veteran of the Battle of Jutland and numerous actions during the Second World War including the slaughter of the German Destroyers at Narvik, the Battle of Cape Matapan and the invasion of Sicily and Italy. Several other invasions and operations had a designated D-Day, … The Battle of the Falaise Pocket ended the Battle of Normandy with a decisive German defeat. Hitler’s involvement had been damaging from the first, with his insistence on hopelessly unrealistic counter-offensives, micro-management of generals, and refusal to countenance withdrawal, when his armies were threatened with annihilation. D-Day_ The Battle for Normandy Part 1 of 4 Audiobook FULL by Atony Bevoor The Battle left 120,000 Norman buildings destroyed and a further 270,000 damaged. French civilian casualties during the Battle of Normandy stand at around 19,890 - not including the estimated 15,000 that had been killed during bombardments prior to D-Day. Eisenhower and the Allied leaders postponed D-Day from the beginning of May to June 5. Caen was not to be an easy prize. Battle of Villers-Bocage. From the outset the Americans pushed for a cross-Channel invasion of north-west Europe (later code-named Operation 'Overlord') as the most direct way to engage German forces. The Royal Navy Battleships of D-Day were also elderly veterans. 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