Question

who 2 was manly involved in the Battle of Normandy

Answer 1

I assume you mean “Who was mainly involved in the Battle of Normandy?” — here’s a concise summary.

Main participants
- Allies
- United States (U.S. Army, U.S. Army Air Forces, U.S. Navy)
- United Kingdom (British Army, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy)
- Canada (Canadian Army and navy)
- Free French forces and French Resistance
- Smaller contingents from Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc.
- Allied commanders: Supreme Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower; British Gen. Bernard Montgomery (21st Army Group); U.S. Gen. Omar Bradley (First U.S. Army/Twelfth Army Group); naval and air commanders such as Adm. Sir Bertram Ramsay

- Axis
- Nazi Germany (Wehrmacht: Army, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine; various Waffen-SS units)
- German commanders: Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (OB West), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (commander of Army Group B), later Gen. Günther von Kluge and others
- Some German coastal defenses were manned by troops from occupied territories and non-German units

Context
- Operation Overlord (the Normandy invasion) began on D-Day, 6 June 1944, and the Battle of Normandy continued through the summer, culminating in the Falaise Pocket and the Allied breakout in late August 1944.
- About 156,000 Allied troops landed on D-Day; the campaign involved large Allied air and naval forces supporting ground operations against heavily fortified German defenses (the “Atlantic Wall”).

If you want, I can provide numbers, a timeline of key battles (Gold, Omaha, Juno, Sword, Utah beaches; Caen; Falaise), or profiles of the main commanders.