....there was also this: code named “Operation Neptune” which most folks are not even aware of.....
“The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.”
Overlord was the strategic plan; Neptune was the operational plan. Sorta like one was the filing cabinet and the other was a folder in that cabinet.
Overlord planning, for security reasons, intentionally excluded any mention of landing dates, landing locations, or troop units; a plan to manage the planning, not the fighting.
Mention Utah, Gold, Juno, Omaha, Sword Beach to today’s youth and they’d think you were citing some really cool clothing optional sea fronts.