Dday

Adolf Hitler referred to his western defenses as the “Atlantic Wall”(Jennys 1). The British under Prime Minister Winston Churchill, had an invasion plan before the United States got into the war. When the United States entered the war, a plan to attack the German forces from England was talked about again. The Germans knew that they would have to defend their Atlantic Wall, since they knew that an attack would probab

The battle of Normandy had been a stunning success despite the loss of life and many wounded soldiers. Despite the early and bloody setbacks for allied troops on the beaches of Normandy, Hitler’s “Atlantic Wall” had crumbled. The Germans were only able to keep the allied army’s back for two months. In August the allies were able to break through the German defenses and within nine more months Germany would surrender.

The Overlord plan called for much consideration and strategic planning. Eisenhower and his planners at SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) picked and early June date for “D-Day.” “D-Day” is a term used by the military to descibe the day a military action is going to go on. The allied planners felt that their air power and naval bombing of selected targets in Germany and France would weaken the German defenses. They also would use paratroopers to move troops behind enemy lines. Before the actual invasion of the Normandy beaches by ground troops the navy and air forces would bomb the cliffs and defenses guarding the beaches. These massive air strikes and bombings were planned to destroy most if not all the German beach fortifications. The allies planned on getting troops and supplies in Normandy faster than the Germans could defend the western front. Ground troops would come in over five beaches code named, from east to west, Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha, and Utah. American service men would land across the Utah and Omaha beaches while the British would land on Sword beach. Gold beach would consist of British and Canadian divisions.

In a November-December 1943 meeting between President Roosevelt and Russian leader Joseph Stalin, it was decided that two large attacks against Germany would take place at the same time. The United States along with England and Canada would attack Germany across the English Channel on the western front. Stalin and his Russian army would invade Germany from the east. These actions would take place together and at the same time. In January 1943, Eisenhower and his staff devised the western attack plan and called it “Operation Overlord.” This invasion would land in Normandy betwe

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