Blackfive has a large compilation of posts from various bloggers about all aspects of D-Day, including 2 posts right here that cover Allied deceptions before D-Day and the Canadians at Juno Beach. Lots of fascinating stuff, from first-person accounts to in-depth reports to special equipment and operations to alternative histories had D-Day failed.
Like Blackfive's D-Day 60th Anniversary Blogburst Salute, this post will remain near the top of our pages until June 7th.
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For anyone interested in a FPS simulation of D-Day and the aftermath, check out Allied Assault/Spearhead, which begins on June 6, 1946. This game has one of the most engrossing sequences I have ever experienced in this kind of game as you get to be part of the invasion of Normandy Beach as a participant. With headphones on, it's an intense experience. It took me something like 15-20 tries and some very nerve-racking scrambling in waist-deep water to reach the beachhead from the drop boat.
I think a lot of you would really enjoy this game, if you're into this sort of thing.
(Of course it takes place on the "real" D-Day in 1944, not '46!)