Normandy and the liberation of Paris day by day
From the landings on 6 June to the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944: key days with a short description and a jump to the map.
Entries come from the atlas database; days without entries are marked. Click a date to open that day on the map.
- 6 June 1944 →
More than 150,000 Allied troops land on five beaches in Normandy, supported by airborne divisions and the largest invasion fleet in history.
Normandy landings and Operation Overlord
ongoing (1)
- 7 June 1944 – 9 June 1944 →
no entries in the database
- 10 June 1944 →
- 11 June 1944 – 21 June 1944 →
no entries in the database
- 22 June 1944 →
- 23 June 1944 – 25 June 1944 →
no entries in the database
- 26 June 1944 →
Operation Epsom begins, aimed at the high ground south of Caen.
- 27 June 1944 – 7 July 1944 →
no entries in the database
- 8 July 1944 →
Operation Charnwood (8–9 July): Caen is taken north of the Orne.
- 9 July 1944 – 17 July 1944 →
no entries in the database
- 18 July 1944 →
Operation Goodwood begins, towards Bourguébus Ridge.
- 19 July 1944 – 24 July 1944 →
no entries in the database
- 25 July 1944 →
The US First Army begins Operation Cobra with a concentrated air bombardment of the area near Saint-Lô.
- 26 July 1944 →
no entries in the database
- 27 July 1944 →
Most organised German resistance collapses and the Cotentin Peninsula is isolated.
- 28 July 1944 – 29 July 1944 →
no entries in the database
- 30 July 1944 →
VIII Corps seizes Avranches; on 31 July the First Army emerges from the bocage.
- 31 July 1944 – 5 August 1944 →
no entries in the database
- 6 August 1944 →
The Battle for Caen ends in an Allied victory.
- 7 August 1944 – 11 August 1944 →
no entries in the database
- 12 August 1944 →
American, British, Canadian and Polish forces close on the German 7th Army and 5th Panzer Army around Falaise.
- 13 August 1944 – 14 August 1944 →
no entries in the database
- 15 August 1944 →
American and French forces land between Toulon and Cannes. German resistance is light.
- 16 August 1944 – 18 August 1944 →
no entries in the database
- 19 August 1944 →
The French Resistance rises in Paris.
- 20 August 1944 →
no entries in the database
- 21 August 1944 →
The Falaise pocket is sealed at Chambois; about 50,000 Germans are captured.
- 22 August 1944 – 24 August 1944 →
no entries in the database
- 25 August 1944 →
The German commander, Gen. von Choltitz, surrenders in Paris; de Gaulle arrives the same day.
Sources
- Operation Overlord, Battle for Caen, Operation Cobra · Wikipedia (EN)
- Operation Cobra · Wikipedia (EN)