What is the official name for 'D-Day'?

Answer 1

The Naval portion of the invasion was Operation NEPTUNE, the name for the entire invasion was Operation OVERLORD.

AnswerD-Day or Day-Day or Day of Days.

Normandy Landings.

Operation Overlord.

AnswerOverall codename was Overlord

But this is spilt into several operational codenames

Operation Tonga - the landing of the british 6th airborne

Operation Detroit - landing of the Americans 82nd airborne

Operation Chicago - the landing of the American 101st airborne

Operation Neptune - the seaborne landing of the british, Canadian, American and french (maybe poles too?) forces

AnswerThe official name was Operation Overlord. AnswerD-Day is also known as the Battle of Normandy.

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Answer 2

When researching "D-Day", also look into "Operation Overlord", which will include much more on the planning before the day of the landings, together with air and naval operations. The events following D-day have been termed "The battle of (or for) Normandy"

Answer 3

"Operation Overlord" is generally used as the code name for D-Day, although, according the D-Day Museum, the code name for D-Day itself was more precisely "Operation Neptune." Neptune was the name for the actual assault on the five Norman beaches on June 6, 1944 (code named Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah), and Overlord was the code name for the overall Allied invasion of Europe, or what Hitler referred to as "Festung Europa" … Fortress Europe. Both operations began on June 6, but ended at different times. Overlord didn't officially end until the Allies crossed the Seine River on August 19, 1944.

Hitler had fully expected to stop the Allies on the beaches no matter where they landed (and he expected them to land on the Pas de Calais, not Normandy), and it was partly luck and partly skill but mostly uncommon courage that made the landings successful and marked the beginning of the end of the Nazi terror. From Normandy on, for the most part, the Allies never stopped advancing until May 7-8, 1945, after Hitler's suicide and the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces.

D-Day, Operation Neptune, remains to this day the largest single seaborne invasion in history, involving approximately 200,000 soldiers landing in the first 24 hours. Over the next months almost 3 million troops made the crossing to the Normandy beachhead.

Please click the related links below. Two marvelous books to read on the subject are:

* D-Day, June 6, 1944 : the climactic battle of World War II: by Ambrose, Stephen E., Simon & Schuster, c1994. and

* The Longest Day : June 6, 1944: by Ryan, Cornelius, Simon and Schuster, 1959.

Answer 4

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