June 6, 1945 was D-Day, WWII On D-Day the allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy code named Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno and Sword. Troops from England, Canada, New Zealand and United States were included in this long planned WWII operation. In 1940 the English army had been chaotically evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk, now they had returned reinforced by the late arriving Americans.
The Germans by 1944 held Europe from the Atlantic to Russia. The landings on D-Day was a pivotal point in WWII, important both strategically and moral point of view. The people of northern France welcomed the advancing Allied Forces, and luckily, Hilter delayed sending reinforcements, which proved ultimately fatal to Nazi regime. As the allies advanced toward Berlin from the west, Stalin’s troops pushed westwards. Finally in April 1945 the two sides converged on Berlin and the war in Europe was over, though WWII lasted until August with the surrender of Japan in the Pacific war.

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