D-Day is
themilitary operation which took place on June 6, 1944. It was code-named Operation Neptune,
presumably because it involved a water landing by the Allies on the beaches of Normandy, France.
It is the largest military operation by sea in history, and of course it had great significance
to the war.
Before D-Day, the Germans were in the enviable position of only
having to fight a war on one front: the eastern front, where the Russians were steadily
encroaching on the territory Germany had won. Almost since the beginning of the war, Germany was
in control of western Europe, so...
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