High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Australian contribution to the Battle of Normandy involved hundreds of military personnel operating under British command. It has been estimated that as many as 3,000 Australian military personnel took part in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, including between 2,000 and 2,500 Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) airmen in Australian and British Royal Air Force units, approximately 500 members of the Royal Australian Navy serving in Royal Navy vessels and about a dozen Australian Army officers attached to British Army units. Australians also took part in the subsequent Battle of Normandy during the northern summer of 1944. While these operations involved all the RAAF units stationed in the United Kingdom, Australian personnel only made up a small share of the Allied force.