For Your Historians: New Google Cultural Institute Collection: The Normandy Landings

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Link: Normandy landings - Google Cultural Institute

 

The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II.

 

5 Exhibits:

 

Bletchley Park: Home of the Codebreakers (1938 - 1945) By Bletchley Park Trust

 

Summer 1944, the Americans at the heart of the Battle of Normandy (1 Jan 1944) By Mémorial de Caen

 

D-Day and the Normandy Invasion (1944) By The National Archives and Records Administration

D-Day (6 Jun 1944) By Imperial War Museums

 

D-DAY (6 Jun 1944) By The George C. Marshall Research Foundation

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Link: First World War

 

These collections of photographs, paintings, letters and a range of artifacts tell stories of a global conflict that changed the course of history. In June 1914, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria, set off a wave of political turmoil across Europe which led to the First World War - one of the great tragedies of the 20th century. Empires, monarchies and countries across several continents underwent political revolution and tremendous social and cultural change, while millions of individual soldiers lost their lives as the new weapons of war took their toll.

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Link: D-Day - D-Day by the Numbers Interactive - HISTORY.com