D-DAY

PLANNING

• First step of liberation of Western Europe
• Involved Land, Sea, and Air Force
• United States, United Kingdom, and Canada
• Eisenhower was supreme general of mission
• Plan was to decieve Germany

JUNE 6, 1944

• Operation was pushed back one day to June 6
• Invade beaches of Normandy
• Omaha and Utah= USA
• Juno= Canada
• Gold and Sword= Britain

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JUNE 6, 1944 CONTINUED

• 160,000 Allied Troops invaded the 5 beaches
• Omaha beach was the bloodiest battle
• 2400 casualties just in Omaha
• 4000 deaths
• Almost double the amount either wounded, missing, or captured

GERMAN SIDE

• Erwin Rommel (desert fox) led the German side
• Hitler refused to send nearby divisions
• Reinforcments were called from further away, causing delays
• Allied air force took out many bridges and roads

AFTER THE LANDING

• Allied troops move through Normandy
• Seized port of Cherbourg
• Allied Troops move further West

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