During World War 2 , in 1939-1945, the Battle of Normandy, which was between June 1944 through August 1944, grew into the Allied abolition of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. The battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, Canadian and British forces landed on five beaches along a 50-miles of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. After World War 2 began, Germany invaded and occupied northwestern France beginning in May 1940. The Americans came into the war in December 1941, and by 1942 they and the British were considering the possibility of a major Allied invasion along the English Channel. The year after, Allied plans for a cross-Channel invasion began to ramp up.
The invasion
The invasion