Objective: advance inland and join troops from British beaches.07.00 German radio broadcasts first report of landing.07.05 Carnage continues on Omaha. US troops pinned down and face 200-yard sprint across open sand. Objective: to capture Cotentin Peninsula and port of Cherbourg. Limited defences, quick progress.- On Omaha, only gap in 100ft-high cliffs between Utah and Gold Beaches, the 116th and 16th US Infantry, 2nd and 5th Ranger Battalions try to land. First waves all but wiped out by continuous, heavy, raking machine gun fire Terrible carnage amid formidable obstacles. Objective: to connect US troops at Utah with British and Canadian beaches to east.- Royal Engineers and 50th (Northumbrian) Division land on Gold.

Knocked out 15 minutes later, but only 80 of battalion of 600 survive. Sainte-M? Eglise captured by US 82nd Airborne Division.05.20 Bombers drop first bombs on German targets.05.35 German shore batteries open fire; Allied naval forces, now massed along entire Normandy coast, begin bombardment.05.37 E-boats attack Allied destroyers.06.30 Assault on beaches starts.- US 4th Infantry Division begins landing on Utah Beach. Lieutenant Poole first Allied soldier to set foot on French soil. German radar jammed along whole French coast.00.16 Paras seize eastern flank of Sword Beach area, including Pegasus Bridge.

Within 15 minutes Major John Howard sets up command post and sends message “Ham and Jam” – code for success.01.00 US 82nd Airborne Division parachutes in west of Saint-M? Eglise.01.15 Main body of US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions start landing by parachute and glider behind Utah Beach and begin capturing exits.01.37 French resistance goes into action against 1,050 sabotage targets.01.50 Rest of British 6th Airborne Division parachutes in east of Orne river.02.45 Troops for Omaha Beach board landing craft in very rough seas.03.50 British paratroops start attacking village of Ranville.04.00 Field Marshal von Runstedt in Paris orders two Panzer divisions toward Caen, but order delayed until Hitler can confirm. are purchased by high-income earners with little leisure time. The purchased goods remain in storage at home as symbols of a potential but unrealisable future.”The report, published this week in the Journal of Consumer Culture, follows a further study by a market research company suggesting Britons “waste” a staggering £80bn a year on goods that are never used or used so rarely as to not have been worth buying.The research, conducted by Datamonitor, found that the typical UK shopper spent an average £1,725 a year on luxury items, gadgets, accessories and memberships which are under utilised, and food which is thrown away. He is not woken for fear of annoying him and it is late afternoon when he sends message to Paris.04.30 British Paras attack German long-range guns at Merville Battery east of Sword landings.