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D-Day
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Planning
• Soviets had done most fighting in Euro.• Stalin wanted a U.S. and G.B. attack– Churchill nervous
– Couldn’t cross Channel because of U-Boats
• Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet in Teheran, Iran November 1943
• Massive Allied invasion to be called Operation Overlord
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Invasion of Normandy
• Supreme Commander – Eisenhower• Involved 21 American divisions and 26 British,
Canadian, and Polish divisions• Strike beaches of Normandy• Code names: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and
Sword• Patton’s fictional army in southeast England
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Beaches of Normandy
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Timeline of D-Day
• 00:00 Hours– Airborne Landing Begins
• Paratroopers were to take care of roads and bridges– Darkness and foreign territory killed many
• 03:00 Hours– Heavy Bombing Raids
• Massive raids against German defense positions
• 04:00 Hours– Allied Invasion Fleet Arrives
• 3,000 landing craft, 2,500 ships and 500 naval vessels arrive
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Timeline Cont.• 06:30 Hours– U.S. Landings Begin
• Land at Utah and Omaha– Tide carried the landing craft away from targets at Utah
• 07:25 Hours– British and Canadian Landings Begin
• Land at Sword and Juno• 12:00 Hours– British and Canadian forces push inland
• 2,00 Americans killed and wounded at Omaha and only gained 2,000 yards
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Timeline Cont.
• 16:00 Hours– Hitler Authorizes German Counter Attack• Realized that the real attack was not at Calais
– Sent 1st Panzer Corps
• Total Landed Troops: 130,000 by sea and 29,000 by air
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War Correspondence on D-Day
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