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At dawn, the incredulous Germans woke to find a sea covered with ships. Operation Neptune, the first phase of the Overlord plan to reconquer Europe, was underway.

At 6.30 am, the first American assault waves reached the Utah and Omaha beaches. In the British and Canadian sectors, the attack was launched an hour later, to take account of the different tide times.

The Americans land at Omaha

By the evening of June 6^th, 20,000 vehicles and 155,000 soldiers (including the paratroops). had been landed The number of men reported killed, wounded or missing came to approximately 10,000 - far fewer than the planners had feared.

With the exception of Omaha, where the outcome of the battle hung in the balance for many hours, the Atlantic Wall was unremittingly smashed and the Allies advanced ten or so kilometres inland.