| On June 6, 1944, a force of about 120,000 Allied soldiers from the United States, Britain, and Canada stormed the beaches of Normandy in northern France, where they were supported by more than 20,000 paratroopers. D-Day, as it was called by the Allies, was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The invasion at Normandy took the Germans by surprise, because they expected an invasion to come from farther north, near Calais, at the narrowest part of the English Channel. The Germans fought the invasion fiercely, but by the end of the day, all five beaches were secured by the Allies. |
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