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Location: Normandy (N. France)
Plans
• Invade northern France, begin push toward Berlin
• “Operation Overlord” planned by Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower
• Soldiers trained in England
• Plans involved soldiers from the US, Great Britain, France, & Canada
Getting the troops “ready to go.” Ike talking to members of the 101st Airborne
Trivia• What does the
“D” in D-Day stand for?
• Day (D+1, D+2, D+3, etc)
• What does the “H” in H-Hour stand for?
• Hour (H+:30, H+:60, H+2:00, etc)
F.U.S.A.G.– Operation Quicksilver
• First United States Army Group
• Run by Gen. George Patton (US)
• Fake army inflatable tanks, fake buildings, false communications
• This was done to distract & confuse Nazi intelligence
The Atlantic Wall
• Rommel built the Atlantic Wall to stop any invasion
• Mines
• Forts
• Machine gun nests, etc.
June 6, 1944
• 1:30 am– 13,000 paratroopers land, some by glider (heavy casualties)
• 3:00 am– Germans pick up Allied ships on radar (2,727 ships; 6,939 men)
• 5:00 am– German batteries (big guns) open fire
Canadian troops landing on D-Day
June 6, 1944• 5:36 am– Allied naval bombardment
begins • Atlantic Wall defenses had been bombed
that night by air unsuccessful• 6:30 am– US soldiers land on the beaches• 7:30 am– British soldiers arrive
End of the Day
• 156,000 troops landed
• 73,000 US; 83,000 British
• 2,000 US casualties at Omaha beach alone
Battle of the Bulge
• Germany’s last attempt to stop advance of Allies
• US forces surrounded • Extreme cold, lack of
food, ammunition, and medical supplies made conditions very difficult
• Eventually weather improved so supplies could be airlifted in
• Patton’s tank units eventually broke through