Imperial War Museums | Warships vs The Atlantic Wall | Naval warfare on D-Day @ImperialWarMuseums | Uploaded May 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
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On 6 June 1944, Allied forces launched the largest combined land air and sea operation in the history of warfare – Operation Overlord. The landing was one of the most important events of the Second World War and marked the beginning of a long and costly campaign to liberate north-west Europe from German occupation.
Our new three-part series, we’ll cover all the elements of D-Day with episodes exploring the fighting at sea, in the air and on land. In this first episode IWM Curator Nigel Steel examines the naval operations that made D-Day possible. Why did the Allies select the Normandy beaches? How did Allied naval guns turn the tide of the battle? And why did the Allies almost cancel D-Day altogether?
Discover IWM's D-Day 80 programming: iwm.org.uk/events/d-day-80
HMS Belfast and D-Day | A Guided Tour: iwm.org.uk/events/hms-belfast-and-d-day-a-guided-tour
What did HMS Belfast do on D-Day?: iwm.org.uk/history/hms-belfast-and-d-day
How D-Day was fought from the sea: iwm.org.uk/history/how-d-day-was-fought-from-the-sea
What you need to know about the D-Day beaches: iwm.org.uk/history/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-d-day-beaches
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On 6 June 1944, Allied forces launched the largest combined land air and sea operation in the history of warfare – Operation Overlord. The landing was one of the most important events of the Second World War and marked the beginning of a long and costly campaign to liberate north-west Europe from German occupation.
Our new three-part series, we’ll cover all the elements of D-Day with episodes exploring the fighting at sea, in the air and on land. In this first episode IWM Curator Nigel Steel examines the naval operations that made D-Day possible. Why did the Allies select the Normandy beaches? How did Allied naval guns turn the tide of the battle? And why did the Allies almost cancel D-Day altogether?
Discover IWM's D-Day 80 programming: iwm.org.uk/events/d-day-80
HMS Belfast and D-Day | A Guided Tour: iwm.org.uk/events/hms-belfast-and-d-day-a-guided-tour
What did HMS Belfast do on D-Day?: iwm.org.uk/history/hms-belfast-and-d-day
How D-Day was fought from the sea: iwm.org.uk/history/how-d-day-was-fought-from-the-sea
What you need to know about the D-Day beaches: iwm.org.uk/history/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-d-day-beaches
Explore and licence the film clips used in this video from IWM Film:
film.iwmcollections.org.uk/collections/_rVma8eOQ
Follow IWM on social media:
twitter.com/I_W_M
instagram.com/imperialwarmuseums
facebook.com/iwm.london
#history #ww2 #dday
