On June 6th,1944, General Dempsey's troops of the British Expeditionary Force, composed by the 3rd and 50th English Division and also by the Canadian 3rd Division, landed on beaches of Normandy codenamed Sword, Juno, and Gold. The D-Day had thus come. The British Expeditionary Force was to land and quickly dominate the city of Caen. People in america, landing at Omaha and Utha into the West, had been to take close control of the Cotenin peninsula and Cherbourg port.