On June 6th, 1944, allied forces under the flags of Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States landed on Juno, Sword, Gold, Utah, and Omaha beaches in Normandy in the largest landing invasion in history, paving the way for a western front to be opened in Europe during WW2.
Plus it's my birthday today, so I figured I'd ask!
It is an incredibly important in bringing the war to a close, and beyond that is a seriously incredible achievement of logistics and planning. That side alone is fascinating. It finally eased the pressure on the Soviets and the Partisans, as well as western resistance forces. In the next months Free France would hijack it and everything, but the landings themselves are incredibly based, even if an incredibly bloody awful event in its own right which cannot be understated
also happy birthday