This battle Hostile_encounter marked Recording the first use Using of the terms `` D-Day '' and `` H-Hour '' by the Americans .

On D-Day at Gold , naval bombardment got Getting underway at 05:30 , and amphibious landings commenced Process_start at 07:25 .

Company Sergeant Major Stanley Hollis received Receiving the only Victoria Cross awarded Award on D-Day for his actions while attacking Attack two pillboxes at the Mont Fleury battery .

The British 6th Airborne Division , under the command Control of Major-General Richard Nelson Gale , was one of the first Allied units to arrive in Arriving Normandy on D-Day , 6 June 1944 , and successfully secured Getting the left flank of the invasion zone .

As a result , the Soviet Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive Attack played Competition a key role in influencing Influence the future successes Achieve of Allied D-Day landings Arriving and Soviet Operation Military_operation Bagration , as German forces Hostile_encounter stationed Placing in France and belonging to Army Group Centre were critically weakened Cause_change_of_strength by those transfers Military_operation .

The operation was intended to encircle Besieging and seize Conquering the German occupied city of Caen , which was a D-Day objective for the British 3rd Infantry Division in the early phases of Operation Overlord .

I Corps began Process_start the eastern thrust two days later from the Orne bridgehead , which had been secured in Operation Tonga on D-Day .

Utah , commonly known as Utah Beach , was the code name Name_conferral for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on June 6 , 1944 ( D-Day ) , during World War II .

D-Day at Utah began Process_start at 01:30 , when the first of the airborne units arrived Arriving , tasked with securing the key crossroads at Sainte-Mère-Église and controlling Control the causeways through the flooded farmland behind Utah so the infantry could advance Cause_to_make_progress inland .

Using two landing Self_motion zones , one to the west of the Caen canal and the other to the east of the River Orne , Mallard was the third airborne operation Military_operation involving units of the division on D-Day .

On D-Day , 6 June 1944 the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division landed Self_motion on `` Juno '' beach in Normandy , in conjunction with allied forces .

The objectives of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on D-Day were to cut Removing the Caen-Bayeux road , seize Hold the Carpiquet airport west of Caen , and form Coming_to_be a link between the two British beaches on either flank .

The 3rd Canadian Division 's D-Day objectives were to capture Hold Carpiquet Airfield and reach Arriving the Caen–Bayeux railway line by nightfall .

By the time all operations on the Anglo-Canadian front were ordered Arranging to halt at 21:00 , The Queen 's Own Rifles of Canada had reached Arriving its D-Day objective and the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division had succeeded in pushing farther inland than any other landing force on D-Day .

By the time all operations on the Anglo-Canadian front were ordered Arranging to halt at 21:00 , The Queen 's Own Rifles of Canada had reached Arriving its D-Day objective and the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division had succeeded in pushing farther inland than any other landing force on D-Day .

The operation was launched Process_start on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings ( Operation Neptune , commonly known as D-Day ) .

The Tulle massacre was the roundup and summary execution Killing of civilians in the French town of Tulle by the 2nd SS Panzer Division `` Das Reich '' in June 1944 , three days after the D-Day landings Self_motion in World War II .

The invaders were able to establish Building a beachhead as part of Operation Overlord after a successful `` D-Day '' , the first day of the invasion .

Land forces used Using on D-Day sailed from bases along the south coast of England , the most important of these being Portsmouth .

These operations Military_operation complemented Cause_to_amalgamate Operation Military_operation Titanic , which was intended to confuse Influence the Germans about the D-Day airborne forces .

It is possible that they contributed Causation to the overall confusion of D-Day as part of the wider Bodyguard plan Arranging .