With the Allied invasion on the mined beaches of Normandy on June 6 1944, the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich was only a matter of time. This turning point in history took the Allies two years of planning. A plan that included detailed manoeuvres of deception by British and American secret services. Way before the invasion began, it cost the lives of Allied soldiers. Meanwhile on the German side, dield marshal Rommel eagerly worked on the expansion of the so-called "Atlantic Wall". Even though nazi propaganda braged about these fortifications as unsurmontable, German experts on site were very well aware that the facts were quite different. British and American air supremacy had made supplies in the West increasingly difficult for a long time.
As the morning of June 6, 1944 broke the world would live to see if the Allied plan was to work out as intended or if Rommels fortifications and the MG-nests were to prepare the 150.000 landing soldiers for the "longest day of their lives".