What the records say
- When
- 6 Jun 1944 – 29 Aug 1944
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 49.34° N, 0.60° W
- Description
- 1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
- War
- World War II
5 sources record it
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “British Group Captain James Stagg correctly forecasts a brief improvement in weather conditions over the English Channel, which will permit the following day's…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “le Premier ministre du Royaume-Uni Winston Churchill visite les plages du débarquement de Normandie”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Высадка в Нормандии”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “連合軍によるノルマンディー上陸作戦(オーバーロード作戦)発動。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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