7. “Operation Overlord”
• June 6, 1944
• 24,000 airborne troops landing just after
midnight
• Early morning: Start with bomber planes taking
out German guns, then troops storming
Normandy Beach
• 160,000 total Allied soldiers landed
• Americans took west, British and Canadians
took east
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• The first wave suffered 50% casualties
• The use of armour was successful at Juno, in
some instances actually landing ahead of the
infantry as intended and helping to clear a
path inland
• The Canadians were off the beach within hours
and beginning their advance inland
• By the end of D-Day, the 3rd Canadian Infantry
Division had penetrated further into France
than any other Allied force
