From PBS Nova.
There is much history at the bottom of the coast of Normandy. On June 6, 1944, D-Day, some 7,000 warships, 11,000 planes and 200,000 Allied soldiers stormed ashore. This day was three years in the planning.
Today, that sea bottom forms one of the largest archaeological sites in the world.
Hundreds of ships, tanks, guns and even potentially unexploded mines are in that water.
It was the biggest amphibious assaults ever undertaken, eclipsing the one at Fort Fisher during the Civil War. An unbelievable amount of planning went into it and England was turned into the launching base. Great secrecy went throughout it.
Tagged Operation Overlord, it was an all-out gamble to crack Hitler's Atlantic Wall. Great subterfuge was used to make Germans think the main attack was coming at Calais, the closes point across the English Channel.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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