The End

On June 6, 1944, thousands of allied soldiers arrived on the five beaches of Normandy to begin an assault known today as D-day. Operation Overlord as it was called took months to formulate. This beach, guarded by Nazis stationed in France, was a strategic point in which the Allies could take and force the Nazis back out of France.
Through deception and misguiding the Nazis into thinking their assault was from elsewhere, men from American, Britain, and even Canada contributed in this early morning landing on the beaches. Caught off guard the Nazis hurried to defend the beach. Some of them were more fortified than others and there was mines and forts built all over each landing. In the end the combined amount of air and ground units were way too much for the Nazis to handle and those who did not die were captured. D-day was not only important in terms of an allied victory over Germany but it allowed them to enter France and liberate the people city by city.
After this day, the allies would expel the Nazis from France and lead to the eventual decline of the axis powers. This day was tremendous as it was the instigator to the freedom of the people in Europe and to the decline of a world war. Imagine what it felt like for an American soldier bottled up in a landing craft eager to arrive and fight or a German soldier waking up to the sight of hundreds of thousands of troops in the sky and ground bound on attacking and killing you. The significance of this day determined that the Germans were no longer able to withstand combined world powers and helped millions more regain the freedoms they had lost.