D DAY

By

Mark Letourneau

When it happened and where?

• D Day June 6, 44

• 50-mile stretch

• Nazi germany

• French coastline

• At Beaches of Normandy

What happened and the cause

• The cause was Hitler taking over francs

• June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed

• operation a crusade in which accept nothing less than full victory

• 100,000 Soldiers began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler

The reason it was memorable and why was it important to WWll

• 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded

• Big reason Hitler failed

• France was saved

Important people

• born: Dec. 12, 1875, died: Feb. 24, 1953

• Rundstedt, Karl Rudolf Gerd von • commander of the armies that invaded southern Poland

• success in the invasion of France in spring of 1940

• title of marshal of the Reich

• commanded the armies of the south in the invasion of the USSR

• stopped at Rostov by Soviet Marshal Timoshenko

• During the D-Day invasions of June 1944, Rundstedt was German supreme commander

• launched the Battle of the Bulge and facing imminent defeat, he retired in March 1945

Technology/Arms

• Atlantic Wall" really began in Spring of 1942 and involved the construction of minefields, concrete walls, concrete bunkers, barbed wire fences, and fortified artillery emplacements.

•  Also, its armor, heavy infantry weapons, and anti-tank capabilities were years ahead of the Americans and British

Bibliography

• http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/dday/• http://www.army.mil/D-day/• History book • Life wwII book• andrewroman.net/2009/06/06/remembering-d-day/

• therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/.../ • Wiki space