6th June 1944 - Operation Overlord.

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D - Day. The biggest amphibious invasion ever undertaken.
Sword - Juno - Gold - Omaha - Utah.
PLUTO - Pipeline Under The Ocean.
Mulberry Harbour.
Pegasus Bridge.
Saving Private Ryan
Canadian, British and United States forces all involved.

Please feel free to add to my list.
 
Plus allied Australian, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French, Greek, New Zealand, Norwegian, Rhodesian and Polish naval, air or ground support.
 
Dam busters smashing four German dams a year earlier meaning the Nazis had to spend money they were going to use for English Channel defences on the repairing of the dams.

Bletchley Park and their cracking of Nazi codes to gain the understanding that they didn’t expect us to attack where we did, and us making inflatable tanks and planes and putting them out at Dover to make the Germans think we were going to invade from there to Calais.

For both of those Manchester has its links as the Lancaster Bombers designed and made in Manchester were the bombers used to bomb the dams, and Alan Turing who created Christopher that cracked the Enigma code, would end up a Manchester icon.

And the German double agents, mostly non-Nazis who’d worked their way up the Nazi spy ring to be trusted with spying in Britain only to turn up and go straight to MI6 and work for them instead. These double agents fed incorrect information back to Germany about British plans.

Also to British Empire and American forces fighting in Italy, as well as the Russians on the Eastern Front, taking focus away from the Western Front so we had an easier time when invading in the West.

With Manchester also having links to the end of the war with Japan as well; with the work done at Manchester uni by John Dalton (atomic theory) and Rutherford (splitting the atom) which lead to atomic bombs being made and were the ones dropped on Japan which lead to their eventual surrender.

I’m currently watching Escape To Victory! But will be watching Band Of Brothers this week, television at its greatest!
 
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