The Normandy Landings

In the summer of 1944, the Allies launched a mass invasion of continental Europe, choosing June 6th as ‘D-Day’ and landing on five beaches in Normandy. By early September, British, American and Commonwealth troops commanded by Bernard Montgomery had liberated both Paris and Brussels, but it would be almost a year before the Second World War was truly over.

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