06/06/2026
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: DDAY
D-Day occurred on June 6, 1944, marking the largest amphibious invasion in military history. Codenamed Operation Neptune (the assault phase of Operation Overlord), the mission launched the Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Western Europe during World War II. Under the supreme command of U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, nearly 160,000 Allied troops—primarily from the United States, Great Britain, and Canada—stormed a heavily fortified 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coast in France.