1. June 6, 1944
2. PREPARING FOR D-DAY
   1. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
   2. Erwin Rommel (1891-1944)
3. A WEATHER DELAY: JUNE 5, 1944
   1. more than 5,000 ships and landing craft
      1. trip across the Channel to France
   2. more than 11,000 aircraft were mobilized
4. D-DAY LANDINGS: JUNE 6, 1944
   1. Utah Beach
   2. Omaha Beach
   3. Gold Beach
   4. Juno Beach
   5. Sword Beach
   6. approximately 156,000 Allied successfully stormed Normandy’s beaches
   7. more than 4,000 Allied troops lost their lives
5. VICTORY IN NORMANDY
   1. By the end of August 1944
   2. Allies had reached the Seine River
   3. Paris was liberated
   4. Germans had been removed from northwestern France
   5. May 8, 1945, the Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany
   6. Hitler had committed suicide a week earlier, on April 30