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The '''Battle of Normandy''', which began on 6 June 1944 with large-scale Allied ground assault on occupied [[France]], lasted for three months, with the liberation of the last Norman commune, Honfleur in Calvados, on 25 August 1944. <ref name=NM-libcomm>{{citation
| author = Normandie Mémoire
| url = http://www.normandiememoire.com/NM60Anglais/2_histo5/histo5_p4_gb.htm
|title = The liberation of the communes}}</ref>
 
There is much confusion about the proper terminology for the overall operation containing the battle, as well as its phases. [[Operation Overlord]] was the overall Allied campaign plan for operations in Northwest Europe in 1944.<ref name=Pogue1954-Ch9>{{citation
| title = The Supreme Command
| first = Forrest C. | last = Pogue
| year = 1954
| publisher = Office of the Chief of Military History
| contribution = Chapter IX: Final Preparations for the Invasion
| url = http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-E-Supreme/USA-E-Supreme-9.html
}}</ref> Overlord was not the first plan for attacking across the English Channel; a series of contingency and serious proposals preceded it: a preparation phase, [[Operation Bolero]], a 1942 contingency invasion, [[Operation Sledgehammer]], and a proposed 1943 invasion, [[Operation Roundup]].<ref name=Cline1951-Ch9>{{citation
| title = Washington Command Post: The Operations Division
| first = Ray S. | last = Cline
| year = 1951
| publisher = Office of the Chief of Military History
| contribution = Chapter IX: Case History: Drafting the BOLERO Plan
| url = http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-E-Supreme/USA-E-Supreme-9.html
}}</ref>
 
The actual landings in Normandy, commonly called '''D-Day''', were [[Operation Neptune]], with sub-operations for the beaches where [[amphibious warfare|amphibious landings]] and the various [[airborne]] landings were made. "D-Day" was actually the generic term for the '''<u>D</u>'''ay of an operation; every amphibious operation had one.
 
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