6 June 1944

June 6, 1944, the United States, Britain and Canada formed the Allied landing in Normandy, France, opened a second front in Europe.

The sight of a low-flying Allied plane sends Nazi soldiers rushing for cover on a beach in France, before D-Day June 1944.

June 1944: A Japanese bomber is shot down as it attempted to attack the USS Kitkun Bay, near the Mariana Islands.

President Obama spoke Friday in Germany, part of a European visit to remember the Allied invasion on D-Day, June 6th, 1944.

June, 1944, Iceland officially disbanded ice Dan alliance, the establishment of Iceland, became the capital reykjavik.

Qian Xiuling, a woman from Jiangsu, was used by God to persuade a German general to spare the lives of 96 Belgian villagers in June 1944.

Troops from the U. S. Army First Division land on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944.

In contrast, the Chino A6M5 Zero still has its Japanese Sakae engine from when it was captured on Saipan in June of 1944.

By June, 1944, Japan was defeated, though the war would continue for another 14 months.

Her first trip abroad was to Normandy, in June of 1944.

He now set a date, June 5, 1944, and told his officers and men to be ready.

On 11 June 1944, for instance, they captured 11 resistance fighters in Mussidan, a small village in the Dordogne.

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched their largest invasion.

On June 6, 1944, Army Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gave the approval to launch.