IndroductionJuno Beach is the code name for one of the five sectors of the Normandy beaches invaded by the Allies, Operation Overlord, on June 6, 1944, otherwise known as Landing during the Second World War. Juno Beach was located between the Sword and Gold sectors; this beach is 7 km long and is located between the villages of Graye-sur-Mer and St-Aubin-sur-Mer, center of the British sector of the Normandy landings. The unit responsible for Sector Juno was composed of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and commandos of the Royal Marines of Great Britain, with support from Naval Force J, the Juno contingent of the invading naval forces. The beach was defended by two battalions of the German 716th Infantry Division with elements of the 21st Panzar Division in reserve at Caen.HistoryIn 1942, the Allies decided to help the Soviet Union and opened another war front in Europe Western. The United States and Britain did not have a large enough army at the time to mount an invasion, but they had drawn up plans to prepare for an invasion in case Germany's Western Front failed. would weaken or the Soviet Union would find itself in a desperate situation. In August 1942, Canadians attempted to invade the French port city of Dieppe. It was a poorly planned and poorly coordinated invasion that was supposed to test the defense that Germany had put in place and ended in disaster: nearly 5,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or captured. In July 1943, British, American and Canadian troops invaded Sicily as the Western Front expanded from Africa towards Europe. The valuable experience of amphibious landings in southern Europe would be used to launch the world's largest invasion force to open the solid...... middle of paper ......ion Jubilee, and moving on to the successful Allied invasion of Sicily and entry into Italy. Many lessons were learned and applied to this invasion, with early planning, mission secrecy, early bombardment and battlefield preparation, and "violence of action" with the invasion all along from the Normandy coast. Operation Overlord was a success even if not all of the initial objectives were achieved. REFERENCES Ward, Geoffrey C. and Burns, Ken, The War, An Intimate History 1941-1945. (New York: Knopf 2007) Jordan, William, Normandy, 44 D-Day and The Battle of Normandy (Pro Libreis 2007) Norman, Albert, Operation Overlord, Design and Reality (The Military Service Publishing Company) Man, John, The Facts on File D-Day Atlas, The Definitive Account of the Allied Invasion of Normandy (Swanston Publishing Limited 1994)