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Operation Overlord

Operation Overlord is also known as D-Day

When did D-Day happen: June 6th 1944

Source 1:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Overlord

Info from the source:


●​ 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
●​ The Normandy coast in northwestern France was chosen as the site of the
landings, with the Americans assigned to land at sectors codenamed Utah and
Omaha, the British at Sword and Gold, and the Canadians at Juno.
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Source 2:
https://engines.egr.uh.edu/episode/3129#:~:text=All%20the%20careful%20planning%2C%20sp
ecially,failed%20to%20destroy%20German%20emplacements.

Info from the source:


●​ Ally planes dropped 13,000 bombs before the landing but they completely
missed their targets. Intense naval bombardment still failed to destroy German
emplacements.
●​ The Allies weren't the only ones having trouble on D-Day. The Germans reacted
slowly to the invasion because the Allies successfully fooled them into thinking
the real attack would be far to the north.
●​ Although things weren't going well for the Allies, they were able to pick
themselves up and form their own groups to keep pushing forward even after
everything that went wrong.

Source 3:
https://www.britannica.com/event/Normandy-Invasion

Info from the source:


●​ In mid 1943 Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht (“Armed Forces”) still occupied all the territory it
had gained in the blitzkrieg campaigns of 1939–41 and most of its Russian conquests of
1941–42. It also retained its foothold on the coast of North Africa, acquired when it had
gone to the aid of its Italian ally in 1941.
●​ The Nazi war economy, though overshadowed by the growing power of America’s,
outmatched both that of Britain and that of the Soviet Union except in the key areas of
tank and aircraft production.
●​ Without direct intervention of America or other allies Hitler could’ve been able to expand
and dominate much further.
●​ Less inhibited than the British by perceived technical difficulties, the Americans pressed
from the start for an early invasion—desirably in 1943, perhaps even in 1942. To that
end George C. Marshall, Roosevelt’s chief of staff, appointed a protégé, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, to the U.S. Army’s war plans division in December 1941 and commissioned
him to design an operational scheme for Allied victory.
●​ At the last gathering, Roosevelt and Stalin combined against Churchill to insist on the
adoption of May 1944 as an unalterable date for the invasion. In return, Stalin agreed to
mount a simultaneous offensive in eastern Europe and to join in the war against Japan
once Germany had been defeated.

●​ His staff’s first plan for Operation Overlord (as the invasion was henceforth to be known)
was for a landing in Normandy between Caen and the Cotentin Peninsula in a strength
of three divisions, with two brigades to be air-dropped.
●​ Another 11 divisions were to be landed within the first two weeks through two artificial
harbours that would be towed across the Channel.
●​ Once a foothold had been established, a force of a hundred divisions, the majority
shipped directly from the United States, were to be assembled in France for a final
assault on Germany.

Allies Motivation:
https://americansoldierww2.org/topics/allies-axis-and-the-aims-of-war

In heavy action, combat infantrymen were motivated to fight primarily by kinship with the men
around them, much more so than by the mere abstraction of the Allied cause.

This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free
men and women; and its faith in freedom under guidance of God. Freedom means
supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain
those rights or to keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose.

D-Day Map:
Late 1942 the maximum amount of territory the
Germans occupied

https://www.sagu.edu/thoughthub/logue/

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