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• On June 6,1944 More than  156,000 American,British and Canadian troops stormed Normandy fiercely

•they defended beaches in northern France in an operation (D-Day Operation)
that proved to be a critical
turning point in WW2

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• the D-Day invasion took years of planning
• Franklin Roosevalt and Winston Churchill were the leaders of the operation

• they knew from the start of the war that a massive invasion of mainland Europe would be critical to releive pressure from the Soviet army fighting the Nazis in the east

• they knew that they had to fight against the Nazis to win the war at some point

•Initally another invasion of ports in northwest France in 1943 was planned

•Roosevalt and Churchill decided to invade Northern Africa first and attack Europe‘s “soft underbelly“ through Italy

Franklin Roosevalt &
Winston Chruchill