The Battle of Normandy (code name: Operation Overlord) was a pivotal one in the
European theater. Its heady goal: nothing less than the liberation of "Fortress
Europe," prying it from Hitler's suffocating grip. More than 3.5 million Allied
troops launched from the English coast and arrived, almost unannounced, on the
beach of Normandy, France, in the wee hours of June 6, 1944. The move caught
the enemy completely off-guard, and this, the single strongest surprise military
maneuver in WWII-era Europe, was instrumental in bringing the Third Reich to its
knees. Even now, stories of that day are the stuff of television, movies, books,
legends. With D-Day, Johnny Lightning celebrates a generation of heroes and their
unrelenting push for democracy and freedom.
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