what happened on d day
Sixty years ago, the forces of the Allied armies of World War II launched the largest land, air and sea operation ever undertaken, called Overlord.. On D-Day, a force more than 150,000 troops strong invaded occupied France to fight the German army. A timeline of events following D-Day: June 6, 1944: An Allied force of more than 150,000 troops, 5,000 ships and 800 aircraft assault 50 miles of northern France's Normandy coastline. More than 4,000 Allied troops die, and 6,000 are wounded, but the Allies succeed in breaching Hitler's coastal defense of France.