2 June - The provisional French government is established.
5 June - More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
5 June - At 10:15 p.m. local time, the BBC transmits the second line of the Paul Verlaine poem to the underground resistance indicating that the invasion of Europe is about to begin.
6 June - Battle of Normandy begins - Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allies troops on the beaches of Normandy.