✦ History

Operation Overlord

June 6 – August 30, 1944

Result Allied victory

Codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe launched on 6 June 1944. After a 1,200-plane airborne assault, 5,000 vessels carried 160,000 troops across the Channel: Americans at Utah and Omaha, British at Sword and Gold, Canadians at Juno. Commanded by Dwight D. Eisenhower, it put over two million Allied troops in France by the end of August 1944.

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Battles 15

June 6 – August 29, 1944
Normandy landings Allied victory Normandy Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Gerd von Rundstedt
June 6 – August 6, 1944
Battle for Caen Allied victory Caen Gerd von Rundstedt, Bernard Montgomery, Erwin Rommel
June 6–30, 1944
Battle of Cherbourg Allied victory Cherbourg Matthew Ridgway, J. Lawton Collins
June 6, 1944 – July 1944
Invasion of Normandy Allied victory Normandy Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adolf Hitler, Omar Bradley
June 6, 1944
Mission Boston
June 10–14, 1944
Battle of Carentan American victory Carentan Maxwell D. Taylor
June 10, 1944
Raid on La Caine Allied victory La Caine Arthur Coningham
June 13, 1944
Battle of Bréville British Victory Bréville-les-Monts
July 25–27, 1944
Operation Spring German victory Caen Guy Simonds, Sepp Dietrich
July 30 – August 7, 1944
Operation Bluecoat Allied victory Normandy Miles Dempsey, Paul Hausser
August 7 – September 19, 1944
Battle for Brest Allied victory Brittany
August 8–13, 1944
Operation Totalize Allied victory Normandy Harry Crerar, Guy Simonds
August 12–21, 1944
Falaise pocket Allied victory Normandy Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adolf Hitler, Omar Bradley
August 14–21, 1944
Operation Tractable Allied victory Walter Model, Harry Crerar, Guy Simonds
August 19–25, 1944
Liberation of Paris Free French and allied victory Paris Dwight D. Eisenhower, Charles de Gaulle, Bernard Montgomery

Key commanders

Allies 17

Dwight D. Eisenhower military commander Omar Bradley Commander, U.S. First Army George S. Patton military commander Bernard Montgomery Commander, 21st Army Group, Commanded Allied ground forces in Normandy Miles Dempsey Lieutenant General, Commander of the British Second Army Harry Crerar military commander Bertram Home Ramsay military commander Richard O'Connor military commander Guy Simonds military commander Charles de Gaulle participant Jacques Chaban-Delmas participant Georges Bidault participant Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque military commander Matthew Ridgway military commander J. Lawton Collins military commander Maxwell D. Taylor military commander Arthur Coningham military commander

Axis 7

Adolf Hitler head of state/government Gerd von Rundstedt Commander-in-Chief West Erwin Rommel Commander, Army Group B, Commanded the defense of Normandy until wounded on 17 July Walter Model military commander Günther von Kluge military commander Paul Hausser military commander Sepp Dietrich military commander