The significance of this day is that it was the day on
which the Allied forces invaded Normandy, France in World War II. The overall commander
of this invasion force was Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who later became president of the
US.
Earlier in the war, the Germans had conquered
essentially all of Western Europe. If the Allies were going to defeat Germany in this
war, they were going to need to invade the mainland and, eventually, invade Germany
itself.
The D-Day landings in Normandy were the first step
of that invasion. The fact that the landings succeeded allowed the Allies to eventually
push all the way into Germany and end the war in Europe.
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