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Collage of D-Day Eisenhowers Note Coast of France Landing  

D-day, 1944

"OK, let's go."

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, giving the final order for D-day, the assault on Nazi-occupied France, June 5, 1944

The greatest invasion force in the history of warfare stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

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