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00:00
- Start of the air borne operation of D-Day
- pathfinders mark jump zones
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03:00
- paratroopers start taking objects like bridges, batteries, and key points.
- Panzer divisions are ready to deploy.
- more paratroopers arrive in france
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10:00
- Germans start to counter attack
- heavy fighting between paratroopers and German troops in the town of Neuville-au-Plain
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12:00
- American tanks moving out stopped by anti tank ditches
- British commandos reach Bénouville Bridge reinforcing the paratroopers.
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14:00
- U.S.S Barton lanches life boats to rescue pointre du hoc rangers
- Colleville-sur-Mer retaken by allies
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15:00
- american destroyers approch beachs to support american troops
- British troops and tanks storm strong points on sword
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17:00
- genral charles de gaulle makes his speech
- the village of Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is liberated by alllied forces
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21:00
- field Marshall Rommel arrives at his command post
- areal bombardment of the city of caen
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22:00
- allies cannot evacuate the wonder on omaha beach
- a German counter attack on point Du hoc happens
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23:00
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06:00
- allied bombers drop bombs on targets
- reports start coming in on the invasion
- H-Hour occurred at 06:30
- troops hit the beach and charge the German defenses
- tanks land on the beach and start moving up
- second wave of the assault land
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01:00
- Allied bombers start there runs
- Germans start to notice something is going on
- sirens alert German gun crews on the appearance of bombers
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02:00
- German forces are put on alert and some units start to mobilize
- fighting takes place between allied paratroopers and German units
- reports start coming into Army HQ but they do not believe the reports.
- allied ships start anchoring off the coast of the beaches
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04:00
- allies start attacking defenses from the air and softening the landings
- combat engineers land at there beaches and start clearing obstacles
- allied troops start taking control of defenses
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05:00
- bombardment of the coastal batteries start
- allied ships are first spotted by German defenders
- landing craft begin moving to the beaches
- amphibious tanks are deployed and start moving to the beaches
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07:00
- allied forces start to break through the beaches and start making a beach head
- rangers take pointe Du hoc
- free french and commonwealth forces land
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09:00
- allied tanks start pushing inward
- Omaha beach is bombarded again to make a break through.
- town of hermandeville is liberated on sword beach.
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08:00
- German forces start to mobilize
- Omaha beach tanks have sunk as they moved to the shore
- more break outs of the beaches
- Omaha beach landings pause due to to many people on the beaches.
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11:00
- German radar station destroyed by us war ships.
- american and British troops fully break out of the beach and send the Germans running.
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13:00
- Omaha under control by Americans
- sword beach faces a counter attack
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16:00
- Marshal von Rundstedt is authorized to engage his two armored divisions
- Aerial bombardment of the city of Caen
- Omaha Beach: the first American Sherman tank reaches the road linking the beach to Colleville
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18:00
- Juno and sword beaches secure
- free french warship the village of Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer
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19:00
- violent fighting takes place between American paratroopers and German defenders
- point Du hoc is still being fought over
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20:00
- ponte Du hoc resives reinforcements
- German tanks observed the operation and decided to retreat.
- operation Elmira
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00:00
- counter attack on pointe Du hoc is still in progress