translated from Spanish: To 75 years of “D Day”: The beginning of the Battle of Normandy

On June 6, 1944 was the Normandy landing, or better known as D-day. That day began one of the most emblematic battles of the Second World War, called “Operation Overlord”. The Battle of Normandy lasted until August 1944 and formed the release by the allies of Western Europe controlled by Nazi Germany. On June 6, about 156,000 soldiers (Americans, Brináticos and Canadians) crossed the channel of La Mancha to arrive from the United Kingdom to the French coast to confront the German army and advance by the conlieutenant. D-Day in numbers:
61,715 British soldiers
73,000 American soldiers
21,400 Canadian soldiers
50,000 German soldiers
6,939 Boats
3,262 aircraft
10,395 tonnes of Allied bombs fell on the ground.
4,414 dead Allied Soldiers
4,000-9,000 dead German soldiers (there are no official figures for what are historical estimates)
One of the keys to the mission was the preparation of more than a year that meant a deception campaign to confuse the Germans on the landing zone. The Allies, through the explicit circulation of false information between the Nazi troops and the key role of spies in the enemy army, managed to convince Germany that the objective of the attack was Pas-de-Calais and not the beaches of Normandy. After 3 months of Clashes, at the end of August, the Allies liberated the north of France until they reached Paris, where the city was liberated and the Germans expelled. Later, that would mean the advance to Germany, the subsequent alliance with the Soviet Union and the end of the Second World War after defeating the German army.

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