Y/M/D | Description | Place |
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1944/05/31 | Church of St Vincent de Rouen (lost) is heavily damaged by a bomb landing in the choir level during the Allied strikes before the D-Day landings. The stain glass windows are now part of the Church of St Joan of Arc. | Catholic Church of St Joan of Arc, Rouen, Rouen, FR |
1944/06/06 | O'Brien makes 11 crossings of the English Channel brings personnel and supplies to Normandy beaches | SS JEREMIAH O'BRIEN, San Francisco |
1944/06/06 | Brig Gen Roosevelt lands with the first wave of the forces assaulting Utah Beach. Although the enemy has the beach under constant direct fire, he repeatedly leads fighting groups from over the seawall, establishing them inland. | Utah Beach, Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, FR |
1944/06/06 | Arriving on the HMS BELFAST, George Stevens shoots footage of the Allied landing on the beach at the start of the D-Day invasion. | D-Day Beaches, Normandy |
1944/06/06 | Korczak Ziolkowski is wounded on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France | Omaha Beach D Day Monument, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, FR |
1944/06/08 | Shortly after D-Day, Eric Aldwinckle is flown over the D-Day landing beaches, Normandy | Normandy, France |
1944/06/12 | Gen Montgomery meets Winston Churchill at Mulberry Port. Monty takes Churchill by jeep down the Courseulles-Bayeux road to his Headquarter. | Omaha Beach D Day Monument, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, FR |
1944/06/30 | By June 30th, over 850,000 men, nearly 150,000 vehicles and 570,000 tons of supplies have been landed on the invasion beachheads in Normandy. | D-Day Beaches, Normandy |
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