1950 Regina Rifles D Coy. reaches Le Fresne-Camilly. Battalion HQ reports that its original D-Day objective has been reached

1/2 As they await orders to move forward, Highland Light Infantry troops mingle with locals, who are happy to see the Germans gone

2/2 Excited and friendly, the locals offer their best luck, and glasses of wine and milk #DDay70

2100 King George VI addresses the Peoples of the British Empire after being updated by Gen. Eisenhower. LISTEN: buff.ly/1lbebO2

1/2 British troops capture Arromanches, on Gold Beach, to build a temporary port (Map courtesy Canadian War Museum)

2/2 Called a Mulberry harbour, it will allow them to bring in supplies until the invasion is complete #DDay70

2145 A second wave of U.S. 26th Regiment, 3rd Battalion leaves its ship and lands on Omaha Easy Red

Highland Light Infantry settles in after being ordered to spend the night in Bény-sur-Mer, ending the day with 0 casualties, 0 shots fired

In the darkness, enemy and Allied bombers trade bombs from the skies over Tailleville, where the North Shore Regt. has settled for the night

2300 1st Battalion, Canadian Scottish Regiment, reports 23 killed, 61 injured, 1 missing #DDay70

2305 German dive bombers attack Omaha Beach. U.S. 26th Regiment 3rd Battalion try to file off the beach, doing so in lines to avoid mines

2/2 34,250 Americans troops have landed; 2,000 have been killed #DDay70

0000 1/2 After intense fighting, U.S. forces have established a small beachhead on Omaha Beach #DDay70

1/3 British troops have established a large beachhead on Gold Beach, linking it to the Canadians at Juno Beach

2/3 25,000 troops had been landed on Gold, with fewer than 1,000 casualties

3/3 LISTEN: Thomas Plant, a sub lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy, describes landing on Gold Beach buff.ly/1k07j1c

0400 1/2 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt reads his self-penned Victory Prayer on air LISTEN: buff.ly/1kDduOz

1/2 By the end of D-Day, Canadians had advanced 14.5 km, further inland than the other Allies

2/2 Their success came at a cost: 359 dead, 715 wounded, 47 taken prisoner

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