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D day took place on the 6th of June 1944. It was also called Operation Overload. The landings took place in Normandy and on five different beaches called Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno and Sword. Forty two days before the landings (D-day minus 42) the allies practiced at Slapton Sands secretly, the allies were practicing for eight days but then a fleet of eight German E-boats attacked and more than seven hundred soldiers and sailors died. This was kept a secret until the 1980's. Almost postponed for 24 hours due to bad weather, the landings took place on the 6th of June 1944 at six thirty a.m. The first attack was from the air by the British, American and Canadian Airborne troops just after midnight mainly focusing to help the soldiers on the beaches, and the second attack was an amphibious attack by allied infantry and armoured divisions. The operation was the largest single-day amphibious invasion of all time, with over 130,000 troops and 195,700 Allied naval and merchant navy personnel were involved. The allies were British, American, Free French and Canadian and the enemy was just Germany. The result of D-day was an allied win. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/ww2/dday.jpg D day landings on Omaha beach