D-Day: The Beginning of the End. The Plan This happened on June 6, 1944 The goal was to penetrate “Fortress Europe” and push the Germans back The official.

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D-Day: The Beginning of the End

The Plan This happened on June 6, 1944 The goal was to penetrate “Fortress Europe” and push the Germans back The official name was Operation Overlord

The Attack This was a combined Allied effort – US, British and Canadian This used air, sea and land forces It began with paratroopers at 2:30 a.m. and forces started invading the beaches at 6:30

What Did Canada Do? We gave paratroopers, soldiers, over 100 naval ships and airplanes We landed at JUNO BEACH We were the only Allied force to meet objective for the day – Take the beach and gain territory

Overall Effort and Impact Over Allied troops landed on D-Day Roughly were Canadian Within a month 1 million Allied soldiers had landed The Liberation of Europe had begun – This was The Beginning of the End for Nazi Germany