June 4 - Rome falls to the Allies. It is the first capital of an Axis nation to fall.
June 5 - More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
June 6 - Battle of Normandy begins - Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
June 9 - Stalin launches an offensive against Finland with the intent of defeating Finland before pushing for Berlin.
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