MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

D-DAY IN 16 OBJECTS

t 06:30 hours on June 6, 1944—D-Day—Allied infantry and armored divisions began landing in monumental numbers along a 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coast. Their mission: to liberate German-occupied, Adolf Hitler committed suicide, and within a week the German Armed Forces High Command had unconditionally surrendered to the Allies.

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