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D-Day landings in Normandy (1944)

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6 Jun 1944 — In one day, about 156,000 men land on five beaches in Normandy. No larger seaborne invasion has taken place in history.

When: 6 Jun 1944
Type: Battle site
Chapter: D-Day and Operation Bagration (chapter 12 of WW2)
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These maps are reconstructed from published sources · US War Department — Atlas of the World Battle Fronts (1945) · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · Regional history institute — Italian annexations of1941, Fiume province and Krk · Regional history institute — Adriatic occupation chronology,1943–1945 · Regional history institute — Zara evacuation and Yugoslav entry,October1944 · IGM Fiume, 1:25,000, sheet53B II SE — boundary established in1924 · Miroslav Krleža Lexicographic Institute — Lastovo wartime chronology · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · Yugoslavia (1929–1939) location map — international frontier and Adriatic coast · Treaty of Rome (1924), division of Fiume and west-bank boundary · Murli / rowanwindwhistler — Slovakia border changes, 1938–1945 · United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — The Holocaust in Slovakia · Slovak Nation’s Memory Institute — The First Vienna Award

Source details

United States War Department, General Staff,1945. US Army official work; public domain
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
Regional history institute — Italian annexations of1941, Fiume province and Krk. Historical geographic facts consulted; source prose and artwork not republished
Regional history institute — Adriatic occupation chronology,1943–1945. Historical geographic facts consulted; source prose and artwork not republished
Regional history institute — Zara evacuation and Yugoslav entry,October1944. Historical geographic facts consulted; source prose and artwork not republished
Istituto Geografico Militare, Fiume (printed1946; 1927 survey with1931–1940 updates), reproduced by Istituto regionale per la storia della Resistenza e dell’Età contemporanea nel Friuli Venezia Giulia. Independent reconstruction from graticule coordinates and boundary observations; archive page reserves artwork rights.. Geographical-fact reconstruction; original archive artwork not distributed
Miroslav Krleža Lexicographic Institute — Lastovo wartime chronology. Historical geographic facts consulted; source prose and artwork not republished
Natural Earth. Public domain
NordNordWest/Wikipedia. Converted from the published SVG to WGS84; eastern Italian regional territory extracted. Source cites Velhagen & Klasings Großer Volksatlas (1938).. CC BY-SA 3.0 Germany
1924 agreement interpreted alongside the regional history institute and City of Rijeka’s explanation of the Donja/Gornja Drenova division.. Historical geographic facts; citation only
Murli; SVG adaptation by rowanwindwhistler (2021). CC BY-SA 2.5; derived geographic paths under the same license · Georeferenced actual published vector regions using eight printed city positions; no map artwork or labels in the atlas.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — The Holocaust in Slovakia. Historical chronology consulted; no source prose or artwork republished
Slovak Nation’s Memory Institute — The First Vienna Award. Historical territorial chronology consulted; no source artwork or prose republished

The moving front follows the source-map position for 1944-06-15. The source date is kept separate from the chapter anchor; manual registration has the precision of a regional map.

The legacy Italian front ID is retained, while its geometry follows the actual dated front. In June 1944 the front is near Rome, rather than prematurely at the Gothic Line.

Slovak territory is reconstructed from the published 1938–1945 border-change map, which separates the client state from Hungarian and German annexations. This regional source does not resolve small northern frontier changes or survey-level detail. After August 1944, German military occupation supersedes the client-state fill.

Published prewar regional land geometry supplies a geographic reference for military control documented separately. Lastovo is Partisan-held after September 1943; Zara changes after October 1944. These regional fills do not claim continuous control of every rural locality.

The dates of published political outlines retain the resolution available in their sources. Military fronts and operational perimeters have their own source and method records.

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