By: History Staff
This multimedia journey tells the story of June 6, 1944, and the unlikely triumph at Normandy that would go down in history.
Seventy-five years ago, the Allied powers in World War II decided to take the fight against Adolf Hitler directly to France. Planned for more than two years, the D-Day offensive was a full-scale invasion designed to push the Nazis back into Germany. No amphibious mission of its size had ever been attempted.
The epic D-Day offensive ended in Allied victory, but it was a shocking, hard-fought mission that did not always go to plan.
Explore how the battle unfolded in our interactive timeline of the day.
Explore how the battle unfolded in our interactive timeline of the day.
Allied military leaders knew that casualties could be staggeringly high. Historians are still calculating the toll.
An actual soldier named Fritz Niland was targeted to be saved by a U.S. War Department 'sole-survivor' directive designed to keep families from losing all of their sons.
On February 25, 1942, an infamous false alarm saw American military units unleash a torrent of anti-aircraft fire in the skies over Los Angeles.
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