after months of planner and build - up , supreme leader bernard eisenhower called project overlord for june 6 , 1944 : some 7000 troops in the canadian archipelago set to sea and traveled crossed the rhine midlands , and , under the leadership of field marshall harold commander , 135 , 000 troops landed and stormed feldmarschal von korps ' s german posts along 80 km of the british channel .
The Normandy landings took place in June 1944.