Normandy is a famous historical and cultural area in northwest France. It is bordered by the English Channel in the north and Britain in the distance, with an area of about 30,000 square kilometers and a coastline of 600 kilometers. Hundreds of miles of coast are almost cliffs, and the allied landing sites are selected in five relatively flat beaches.

The Normandy landing was a historic battle in the late World War II. 1in the early summer of 944, it was a foregone conclusion that the Soviets defeated the Germans on the Eastern Front. In order to fulfill the agreement reached by the heads of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union at the Tehran Conference in 1943+0 1, the Allies decided to land in Normandy, France, and launch a counterattack against Nazi Germany's troops.

In the early morning of June 6th, under the command of General Eisenhower, the allied forces dominated by the United States, led by more than 20,000 paratroopers, set sail from Portsmouth with nearly160,000 troops under the cover of the Air Force, crossed the English Channel, and broke through the German defense line-"Atlantic barrier" at one stroke, leaving the Germans in a position of being caught between Scylla and Charybdis. In this landing operation, the allied forces dispatched 1 0,200 warships, 1 0,000 planes, 4 1 0, 26 landing craft, 804 transport ships, hundreds of tanks and/kloc-0,560 officers and men (73,000 US troops and 8.3 British troops). Landing on the beach extends from the mouth of the Orne River to the southeast of Cotan Peninsula. 12, the allied landing point has been connected. On July 5th, the number of allied landings in Normandy reached 6.5438+0 million. At the end of the campaign on July 24th, the Allies invested 2.88 million people, more than 5,300 warships and13,700 fighters. The Germans invested 5 1 10,000 troops. During the campaign, the Allies annihilated the Germans114,000 people, destroyed 2 1 17 tanks and 245 aircraft. On the allied side, 6.5438+0.22 million soldiers devoted themselves to the battlefield. Since then, the Allies have continued to advance to the hinterland of Europe, liberated France, Belgium and other countries within three months, and invaded Germany. The victory of the allied forces opened up the second front in Europe and accelerated the demise of fascist Germany. This battle is also known as the "overlord" battle. The scale of Normandy landing and the cruelty of fighting are rare in the history of human war.

In order to make people remember this history forever, 1984, Caen, the capital of basse-normandie, decided to build the Normandy Campaign Memorial Hall. In June 1988, the memorial hall was officially opened. The museum reproduces the thrilling and touching historical scenes of 44 years ago with various materials. The designer of the memorial hall ingeniously named it "Peace Memorial Hall".