Who attacked who on D-Day?

Answer 1

D-Day was name given to 6 June 1944, which was the day that the Allied Forces launched an invasion of France to free that country from German control.

At that time, France was occupied by Nazi Germany and ruled by a puppet government known as the Vichy government, because its headquarters were in the town of Vichy.

The forces defending Normandy were German army troops from a variety of different sources. The German troops included several regiments of soldiers from countries under German occupation that were fighting in the German Army - mainly Eastern European countries.

The Allied troops invading Normandy included British, American and Canadian troops, as well as the Free French, who were French soldiers and sailors who had escaped the surrender of France to Nazi Germany in 1940 and continued to fight the Germans alonside the Allies. The Free French were led by General Charles de Galle, who would become President of France after the Germans were evicted from the country.

To summarise, on D-Day, British, Canadian, American and Free French troops attacked German troops in Normandy.