Armed Forces Day - 27 June 2009

D-Day: the biggest wartime operation

'We cannot afford to fail.'

These were the words of General Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander in the run-up to D-Day. Failure would give Hitler the opportunity to initiate an eleventh-hour attempt to save Germany and launch his new V-weapons against British cities. Success would mean the beginning of the end of the Third Reich.

Midnight had not long struck when the British and American airborne armada began its mission on 6 June 1944 in the moonlight. They landed at the edges of the invasion area on the Normandy coast to secure the western and eastern flanks of the beachheads and protect them from German attacks. After two years of meticulous preparations and high level planning by the most senior British and American commanders, Operation Overlord, their audacious strategy to invade and liberate north-west Europe, was under way.

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