It was essential to open a second front against Germany. The battered USSR had been fighting the bulk of the German forces since Barbarossa and the African and Italian campaigns had failed to draw off adequate German reserves from the Eastern Front.
It got the Allies a toehold in France that they could use to continue the invasion without having to land soldiers again
Operation Overlord
The overall commander of Operation Overlord was General Dwight Eisenhower. Other senior commanders for Overlord included Air Marshall Leigh-Mallory, Air Marshall Tedder, Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery and Admiral Bertram Ramsey.Dwight D. Eisenhower .
1 of a series of meetings between Churchill, FDR & Stalin to decide how to co ordinate the fight against the Germans in WW2
Operation desert storm :: apex
It was a Berlin airlift.
The invasion of the Eurpoean mainland (France) on 6 June 1944.
The Allies won Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord June 6, 1944
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower was the Commander of Operation Overlord
Bernard Montgomery was the general for the U.S army in Operation Overlord.
It was called D-day or Operation Overlord.
plans and preparations were started in 1943.
Yes , "Operation Overlord" which was the Allies landing in Normandy , France .
A total of 16,000 were credited with service in Operation Overlord.
Overlord was the code name for the invasion of Europe. D Day was the first day of the operation.
A storm on the night of 4th/5th June delayed Operation Overlord by one day.
Churchill didnt - operation overlord was a plan drafted by allied high command