This 116-page special magazine tells the story of the Normandy landings in the summer of 1944 in this, the 75th Anniversary year. Featuring: TRAINING FOR D-DAY Training the tens of thousands of troops who would take part in the Normandy landings was a major endeavour and in one notorious exercise, would prove disastrous. OPERATION NEPTUNE To carry the assaulting forces to Normandy would be an enormous operation indeed it would be the largest amphibious operation ever attempted. STORMING THE BEACHES With men of the airborne forces having already set foot on Occupied Europe, Hitler s Fortress Europe was about to be assailed from the sea. OVERLORD COMPLETE The Germans had been convincingly defeated in Normandy, and the final objective of Overlord the liberation of Paris was imminent.
