D-Day hour by hour - The 24 decisive hours of operation Overlord

Tuesday 6th June 1944 : Normandy is preparing, once more, to go down in history.

Some 156.115 Allied soldiers are to launch the attack on France : infantrymen, seamen and airmen, who will all individually contribute towards the success of operation Overlord, lauched during World War II. Each action undertaken througout that famous day represents one of the countless cogs in the vast Allied war machine.

Via over 350 individual events that punctuated D-Day from daxn to dusk, the day that marked the starting point of the liberation of Western Europe, relive -hour by hour, minute by minute - the specific episodes of the attack on Normandy on the 6th of June 1944. These chronological "instants" offer us an insight into the stakes, the ressources engaged and the consequences of one of the bodest military offensives in history.