What was D-Day?
In May 1944, 12 Allied nations were working together under the command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower to plan an invasion of Nazi-occupied northern France. Germany’s Chancellor Adolf Hitler expected an imminent attack, but thanks to false tips from undercover spies posing as German sympathizers, his defense efforts were concentrated not in Normandy, where troops were preparing to move in, but in Pas de Calais. Their plan was almost a year in…