D-Day Fast Facts
Here is a look at D-Day. Allied troops invaded Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, to fight Nazi Germany in World War II.
Facts
The code name for the invasion was Operation Overlord.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded the operation, and plans were made to land in Normandy, west of where the German troops and artillery were built up.
Code names for the five beaches where the Allies landed: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword.
More than 13,000 aircraft and 5,000 ships supported the operation.
Timeline
August 19, 1942 – A raid on the French port of Dieppe resulting in heavy losses convinces D-Day planners to land on the beaches. Preparations begin for an Allied invasion across the English Channel.
Reporters traveling to the United Kingdom for US President Joe Biden’s first overseas trip were delayed seven hours after their chartered plane was overrun by cicadas.
Even Biden was not spared. The president brushed a cicada from the back of his neck as he chatted with his Air Force greeter after arriving at Joint Base Andrews for Wednesday’s flight.
“Watch out for the cicadas,” Biden then told reporters. “I just got one. It just got me.”
The Washington, DC area is among the many parts of the country that have been swarmed by Brood X cicadas, a large emergence of the loud insects that take to dive-bombing onto moving vehicles and unsuspecting passersby. There are trillions of them in the Washington, Maryland and Virginia region, said University of Maryland entomologist Paula Shrewsbury. Their current numbers have not been seen in 17 years.
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Cicadas were flying; for hours, Biden s press plane was not
By SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press June 9, 2021 11:30am Text size Copy shortlink:
WASHINGTON The cicadas were flying. The reporters hoping to join the president in Europe were not.
Reporters traveling to the United Kingdom for President Joe Biden s first overseas trip were delayed seven hours after their chartered plane was overrun by cicadas.
The Washington, D.C., area is among the many parts of the country that have been swarmed by Brood X cicadas, a large emergence of the loud 17-year insects that take to dive-bombing onto moving vehicles and unsuspecting passersby. There are trillions of them in the Washington, Maryland and Virgi