History glossary
Juno Beach
the Canadian D-Day landing beach between Gold and Sword.
- Category
- Landing beach
- Region
- Normandy, France
- Date range
- 1944
What it means
Juno Beach was the Canadian landing sector on D-Day. Canadian forces faced beach obstacles and German defenses, then pushed inland as part of the central Allied beachhead.
Stories using this term
D-Day and the Liberation of Europe
From Operation Overlord to the Rhine crossing, this story traces how the western Allies opened a decisive front, liberated occupied Europe, and helped defeat Nazi Germany.
The Second World War
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