BBC World War II Video

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Theatre: North West Europe
Dates: 6 June 1944
Location: Beaches on the Normandy coast in north western France.
Outcome: The establishment of Allied beachheads on the Normandy coast, a successful start to the Allies' invasion of North West Europe.
Players:
Allies: General Bernard Montgomery's 21st Army Group comprising General Miles Dempsey's 2nd Army and General Omar Bradley's US 1st Army; 6th Airborne Division; US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions; Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey's Allied Naval Expeditionary Force
Germany: Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Army Group B comprising General Friedrich Dollmann's 7th Army and General Hans von Salmuth's 15th Army; four Panzer divisions held in army reserve

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