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.
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Published: June 05, 2019
Last Updated: January 31, 2025
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.
While the war raged overseas, soldiers and civilians worked furiously to protect the capital against rising waters.
Many Allied bombings released the equivalent energy of 300 lightning strikes and temporarily weakened the ionosphere, say researchers.
The Los Alamos Historical Museum halted a Japanese exhibition on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki because of a controversy over its message of abolishing nuclear weapons.
British intelligence called Juan Pujiol Garcia 'Agent Garbo' because he was so good at assuming new identities.
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