June 7th, 1944:

Allied forces reach Bayeux and make contact with 6th Airborne Div. First Allied airstrip laid out at Asnelles, N.E. of Bayeux.

German light naval forces and U-boats commence frequent sorties (mainly by night) against Allied invasion fleet, but suffer heavy losses - including 2 destroyers - and sink only small number of transports and LC (landing craft) and 1 destroyer (RNN Svenner).

Italian front: 5th Army takes Civitavecchia, 56 km N. of Rome

[Reference: Chronology of World War II, the Day by Day Illustrated Record, compiled by Christopher Argyle p.158]

I'm going to do another 5 post D-Day, well, posts, from the same book.

If you thirst for more, then maybe I'll start from the beginning and do a post each day starting on September 1st of this year, the day Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.

Or, you can buy the book.

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