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.