Also known as Operation Overlord, the battle started on June 6, 1944, when some 156,000 Allied forces landed on the beach along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region also called the Atlantic wall. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history, 5 days after the initial attack, on June 11, the beaches were under allied influence and over 326,000 troops, more than 50,000 vehicles and some 100,000 tons of equipment had landed at Normandy. The Allies made a large-scale deception that mislead the Germans to make things easier on the men doing the invasion, that the intended invasion target, was the narrowest point between Britain and France, rather than Normandy. They did that by