75th Anniversary of D-Day: All Five Beaches Secured By Allies By June 11

14.  ALL FIVE BEACHES SECURED BY ALLIES BY JUNE 11.

Five days after the D-Day invasion, troops immediately began installing two massive temporary harbors that had taken six months to construct back  in England.

All told, the Allies unloaded approximately 2,500,000 men , 500,000 vehicles and 4,000,000 tons of supplies to those temporary harbors over the remaining course of the war.

You can read all fifteen facts about D-Day in this blog and my June 6-8 Civil War and RoadDog's RoadLog blogs.