The campaign to liberate Europe and “defeat Germany first”, as agreed between President Roosevelt and the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Arcadia Conference in December 1941, was launched on June 6, 1944. Given the codename of “Operation Overlord”, it has come to be known simply as D-Day. The operation was to last until August 30 and began the process of freeing Europe from the Nazi yoke after four years of oppressive occupation.
As the fighting moved further eastwards, the liberated
