D-Day

Western Allies (Britain, US, etc) wouldn't have landed in Europe. By June 1944 (the D-Day Landings), the Soviet Union (Russia) was aleady approaching the German's front door. Translation: If the Western Allies didn't reach Berlin, the Soviets would take it over first. Germany would have lost the war, regardless of the Normandy Landings; the main war was between Russia and Germany, and Germany was losing.

I think this was on Omaha beach.

At the time, Nazi Germany was pressing hard against the Soviet Union on the USSR's west. It would not be unreasonable to believe that Stalin wanted the Allies to invade Western Europe as a way of drawing off German troops, etc.

The raid on Dieppe had shown, at great cost, that taking a French port intact was not a viable option. The disinformation plan that the invasion, the Germans knew it was coming, would be in the Calais region, had some success. Naval & Air supremacy were vital to the Allies, the continual buildup had to be sustainable and massive: Most importantly, once ashore, the US, Canadian & British forces could not be repelled. If Sealion planning is compared, the Nazi planning for invading England in 1940, then it would have to be in SE of England. Fortunately the Allies, by 1944, had the benefit, if you will, of studying their options essentially since Dunkirk. If France was to be liberated as a stepping stone towards Germany, then only a massive, wide reaching, overwhelming plan could be successful. The Italian peninsula had shown just what defenses the Germans could use, the Alps appeared large in the minds of any move through Austria to Germany. Looking back, it seems that D Day was plain sailing, not quite as plain as it appers in the event, Omaha was close to being a disaster, but surprise was all. The invasion, subsequently, of the south of France Op Anvil/Dragoon, was, in the event, a damp squib, though not to those liberated, I'm sure. In hindsight, just what were the alternatives to Normandy? Certrainly the weather was not conducive to a channel crossing at the time, and, as I say, it was not quite as plain sailing as it subsequently appears.

Operation Overlord

The same country as today - France

No it just stands for Day.

like H-Hour, D-Day just signifies the day upon which the event/operation will occur.

The start of the invasion of Normandy

I was also curios about this, so I looked it up. If my research is correct, V-Day means Valentine's Day. :-]

Code-name - Operation Overlord

The U.S. general known as Eisenhower was in charge of the d-day. There were also other leaders who assisted him like Leigh-Mallory who was the air force commander.Ê

Guns and tanks

The Battle of the Bulge

Because the Normandy Invasion was the start of the liberation of (Western) Europe from Nazi tyrrany. The Russians were desperate for a distraction of German military power that had affected them so grieviously, and the Germans needed to be defeated to end the terrible occupation of the land of many millions of people.

The Normandy Campaign. It began on June 6, 1944 (commonly known as D-Day), and is held to end on June 30, 1944, with the start of Operation Cobra which was the plan by United States Army General Omar Bradley to break out from the Normandy area after the previous month's D-Day landings. Operation Cobra lasted until 31 July 1944.

An American infantryman had a helmet, rifle, bombs, and surplus ammunition.

The names were created in 1943 by the COSSAC committee led by British General Frederick Morgan.

There where over 5,000 Higgins [ landing crafts] used on D-Day.

Overlord

about 140,000 men landed on Utah beach with ten thousand made it out alive

it was the biginning of the end of the war.......................

General Dwight David Eisenhower of the US ARMY was the Allied Commander for the Normandy Invasion. He had all the allied forces under his command for that ( not the Pacific Theater forces obviously ) and his local officers in direct charge were General Montgomery in command of British and Canadian Forces and Gen Omar Bradley, US Army , in charge of American Forces.

Women, while not enlisted in the armed forces at the time, landed on the beaches of Normandy during the days following D-Day, after the beaches had been cleared. These women took to the beach as Red Cross workers to assist with the dead and dying that laid on the beach after the landing.

The Allies got ashore and drove inland, in a year the war was over.
The outcome was that Allied armies had a firm grip of France and were there to stay. One of the greatest German officers, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had said at a Germans staff meeting - "If we don't repel them from the beaches, we have lost" - he was correct.

No women at all were on the beaches on D-Day. Female Red Cross workers started arriving in the following days AFTER the beaches had been cleared of German troops.

Exact numbers are unknown, but at the time hardly any women were in the U.S. army.