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British military argues about area bombing: Along with Arthur "Bomber" Harris, RAF chief of the air staff Sir Charles Portal was a vigorous advocate of area bombing -- destroying civilian populations instead of military targets. British air chief marshal Sir Arthur Tedder uses bombers to clear way for troops: British air chief marshal Sir Arthur Tedder was appointed Eisenhower's deputy supreme commander for the invasion of Normandy. The invasion at Normandy, France, represented the culmination and fruition of an Allied planning process that had lasted more than two years. The right combination of grants, tax credits and per-watt rebates might make the initial investment more affordable than many homeowners think. 3: Do Your Grocery Trip Right. Their photographs were interpreted with stereoscopic techniques, producing a 3-D image from two overlapping prints. By 1942 Allied aircraft could produce 1:10,000 scale photographs from 30,000 feet. April 30: The first prefabricated, $2,200 home goes on display in London, in advance of Churchill's plan to use hundreds of thousands of these structures to house those left homeless by the war.

A house in Scandinavia, with its notoriously short days, won't fare as well as a house near the equator. U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower greets troops before D-Day: On June 5, 1944, General Dwight Eisenhower wrote a short note. This assault was carried out by 20,000 paratroopers and glider-borne infantry of the U.S. U.S. colonel George Taylor of the First Infantry Division tried to motivate his shell-shocked and fatigued men to advance off Omaha. This was the first enemy ship captured by the U.S. Aerial reconnaissance assesses enemy defenses: Photography provided essential intelligence to all belligerents. April 27: In the run-up to D-Day, British authorities ban all travel outside the country in an effort to put a stop to intelligence leaks about the invasion. Subsequent puzzles will include the words Omaha and Overlord, what is electric cable leading Allied security to suspect Dawe is leaking intelligence about the D-Day invasion. Army commander for the invasion of France. The five beaches of Normandy are given code names: Sword and Gold were code names for the beaches attacked by the British Second Army. He asked their names and where they were from.

Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of mainland Europe and the establishment of the second front long advocated by Stalin to relieve pressure on the Russians in the East, was the greatest amphibious landing operation in history. Nazi Germans patrol the bluff at Pas de Calais, France: A German tank patrols the beaches of Pas de Calais in the spring of 1944. The Germans had every reason to believe that the main impending Allied invasion would arrive in Pas de Calais -- and not farther west in Normandy, as the Allies actually intended. With Allied airborne forces already in place (despite many paratroopers having landed far from their intended objectives during the night), the main seaborne landings began at 6:30 a.m. Omaha, however, was heavily defended by German forces. April 29: Disaster strikes a D-Day practice run when German naval forces attack an American training exercise, killing more than 600 troops. Nationally, phantom power accounts for more than 100 billion kWh and more than $10 billion in energy costs each year. Like the walls of an embattled city, there's only so much energy these shocks can absorb before they finally succumb. On Adolf Hitler's orders, actor Kurt Gerron directed a propaganda film, The Fürhrer Gives the Jews a City, praising Theresienstadt.

Of the 144,000 Jews sent there, about 33,000 died of starvation and epidemic diseases, and another 88,000 were deported to extermination camps. Allies encounter strong resistance after landing at Utah beach: Allies met with the stiffest resistance on Juno and Omaha beaches. May 3: Spain's Fascist government under General Francisco Franco agrees to curtail supply shipments to Nazi Germany in exchange for an increase in oil shipments from the Allies. Some 120 Japanese planes are destroyed as the Allies return to the key Japanese base of Truk to inflict further damage. Japanese shipping is severely curtailed following Allied mining of the waters off Thailand and Burma. Some 1,200 warships, 4,200 landing ships and landing craft, and 1,200 merchant ships were engaged off Normandy. Eisenhower decided that Bradley's First Army, with its three corps, would land on the Omaha and Utah beaches in the first wave of the invasion of Normandy.