| DATE |
TIME |
OPERATION |
OBJECTIVE |
REMARKS |
| 18 August 1942 |
|
Raid on Dieppe |
|
Disaster |
| April 1943 |
|
Casablanca Conference |
Decision to open second front |
Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin |
| December 1943 |
|
Tehran Conference |
Decision to invade Normandy |
Eisenhower forms SHAEF |
| 11 January 1944 |
|
Operation Hardtack 21 |
Intelligence gathering on beaches |
|
| January 1944 |
|
Operation Hillside |
Photograph Normandy |
|
| January-April 1944 |
|
Operation Fortitude |
Mincemeat, Cockade, Skye |
Deception strategy |
| April 1944 |
|
Exercise Smash |
Studland Bay |
Practise landings – Combined ops |
| 28 April 1944 |
|
Operation Tiger |
Slapton Sands |
US practise landings – Disaster |
| May 1944 |
|
Operation Fabious |
Hayling Island |
Practise landings |
| 4 June 1944 |
|
Group Captain Stagg |
Reports weather will improve |
|
| 5 June 1944 |
|
Commander Eisenhower |
Triggers landings |
|
| 5-6 June 1944 |
|
Operations Taxable & Glimmer |
RAF chaff radar jamming |
|
| 5-6 June 1944 |
|
Operation Titanic |
Dummy parachutists |
|
| 5 June 1944 |
00:20 |
Operation Mallard |
6th British Airborne landings |
1st Drop 2nd Oxs & Bucks |
| 5 June 1944 |
|
Operation Tonga |
8th & 9th Brigades, 6th British Airborne |
|
| 5 June 1944 |
21:50 |
Pathfinder Units |
Landings US & British Drop Zones |
|
| 6 June 1944 |
00:55 |
Operation Albany |
US 101st Airborne start drops |
|
| 6 June 1944 |
01:40 |
Operation Boston |
US 82nd Airborne start drops |
|
| 6 June 1944 |
04:30 |
Operation Neptune |
US Sea Transport start drops |
|
| 6 June 1944 |
05:35 |
Operation Neptune |
British Sea Transport start drops |
|
| 6 June 1944 |
06:30 |
OMAHA Landings (Vierville) |
1st & 29th Divisions |
|
| 6 June 1944 |
06:30 |
UTAH Landings (La Madeleine) |
US 4th Division |
|
| 6 June 1944 |
07:00 |
SWORD Landings (Ouistreham) |
8th & 9th Brigades |
|
| 6 June 1944 |
07:25 |
GOLD Landings (Ver-sur-Mer) |
69th & 231st Brigades |
|
| 6 June 1944 |
07:45 |
JUNO Landings (Courselles) |
7th & 8th Brigades |
|
| 6 June 1944 |
|
Operation Rob Roy |
Re-supply 6th British Airborne |
|
| 7 June 1944 |
|
Missions Keokuck & Elmira |
Re-supply 101st Airborne |
|
| 7 June 1944 |
|
Mission |
Re-supply 82nd Airborne |
|