D-Day

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D-Day

• June 6th, 1944

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Operation Overlord

• Dwight D. Eisenhower General
• Plan
• Cross the English Channel
• 82nd, 101st Airborne
• Hit Normandy, France
• 5 beaches or landing zones
• Omaha and Utah U.S.
• Gold, Juno, Sword British and Canadian

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Operation Fortitude

• Designed to convince the Germans the attack was
  coming elsewhere
• Bombed other regions in attempt to soften them
  up
• Navy
• Air Force
• Created fake unit via radio
• Dummy paratroopers
• Germans were convinced the attack was somewhere
  else

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German preperations

• General Rommel
• In charge of building Atlantic Wall
• Concrete bunkers
• Pillboxes
• Flooded areas to prevent glider landings
• Rommelspargel poles in ground with explosives

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Invasion

• Delayed one day due to weather
• Beaches
• Sword British, light casualties
• Juno Canadians, heavy resistance, still reached
  objectives
• Gold heavy casualties
• Omaha U.S. most heavily fortified, order to
  abandon beach almost given
• Utah U.S. lightest casualties

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Total Casualties

• Allies
• Total 10,264
• Germans
• Total Between 4,000-9,000

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