D-day :: World War II

D- twenty-four hour periodI think the reson the d- solar day operation was sucsessfull was because of deception. It was 1944, and by this snip the united states had been in the war aginst germany for threee years and the british had been in for close six years. Alot of people dont know that there were many beachs that were seiged that same day that usaully dont get meantioned. the two that were the most importante that most people focuos on were the Omaha and do beach beacuase of so many american solgers flooded those beachs and they had alot of casulties. Most of the other beachs were tackin with minamal casulties. over the next couple of hours the men on the beachs had to go though hell. The allied invaders had to tack these beach they played a huge authority in the over all sucsees of the operation. Before the landing the german beachs had to be preped by bombing by air by the united states bombers that with 1,000 ships droped 5,000 haemorrhoid of bombs. The beachs were also softened up by the united states battel ships bombarding the beachs. Although fewer allied ground troops went ashore on D-Day than on the first day of the earlier invasion of Sicily, the invasion of Normandy was in total historys greatest pissing to land operation, involving on the first day 5,000 ships, the largest armada ever assembled 11,000 aircraft (following months of preliminary bombardment) and virtually 154,000 British, Canadian and American soldiers, including 23,000 arriving by parachute and glider. The invasion also conglomerate a long-range deception plan on a subdue the world had never before seen and the clandestine operations of tens of thousands of Allied subway fighters in Nazi-occupied countries of western Europe. American General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named supreme commander for the affiliate in Europe. British General, Sir Frederick Morgan, established a combined American-British headquarters cognize as COSSAC, for Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allie d Commander. COSSAC developed a number of plans for the Allies, most notable was that of Operation Overlord, a full surmount invasion of France across the English Channel. Eisenhower felt that COSSACs plan was a nigh operation. After reviewing the disastrous hit-and-run raid in 1942 in Dieppe, planners trenchant that the strength of German defenses required not a number of get out assaults by relatively small units but an intense concentration of causality in a single main landing.