1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
Documented facts
- Date
- 6 June 1944 (Gregorian) — 29 August 1944 (Gregorian)
- Precision
- Day
- Referenced location
- Normandy
- Source coordinates
- 49.3400°, -0.6000°
- Part of
- World War II
Referenced participants
- United Kingdom ↗
- United States ↗
- Canada ↗
- Australia ↗
- Poland ↗
- Belgium ↗
- Czechoslovak government-in-exile ↗
- French Liberation Army ↗
- Denmark ↗
- Greece ↗
- Netherlands ↗
- New Zealand ↗
- Norway ↗
- Nazi Germany ↗
Documented participation does not establish opposing sides. Alliances absent from the sources are not reconstructed.
People and command
- Trafford Leigh-Mallory — documented command · Source ↗
- Bernard Montgomery — documented command · Source ↗
- Bertram Home Ramsay — documented command · Source ↗
- Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder — documented command · Source ↗
- Miles Dempsey — documented command · Source ↗
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — documented command · Source ↗
- Omar Bradley — documented command · Source ↗
- Gerd von Rundstedt — documented command · Source ↗
- Erwin Rommel — documented command · Source ↗
- Friedrich Dollmann — documented command · Source ↗
- Hans von Salmuth — documented command · Source ↗
- Wilhelm Falley — documented command · Source ↗
- Bertram Home Ramsay — documented participation · Source ↗
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