An order had been issued on Friday prohibiting British activists from gathering for a planned “stop the boats” protest nicknamed Operation Overlord in the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais.
They named a protest aimed at stopping boats from crossing the English Channel…after what was probably the largest crossing of boats across the English Channel ever?
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 (D-Day) with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune). A 1,200-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving more than 5,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on 6 June, and more than two million Allied troops were in France by the end of August.
They named a protest aimed at stopping boats from crossing the English Channel…after what was probably the largest crossing of boats across the English Channel ever?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Overlord