D-Day landing

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  • Germanys invasion of France

    Germanys invasion of France
    Germany invaded france

  • 1943 - The Start

    1943 - The Start
    Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin started to plan D-day.

  • Command

    Command
    Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin put General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Bernard Montgomery in charge to organize the d-day operation.

  • Practice

    Practice
    Operation Bever: The beach landing rehearsals. Included Britan, the US, and Canada all took place in this practice, this practice taught them that there was a lack of communication between the countires.

  • Air Rehearsals

    Air Rehearsals
    Air force stated to rehearser for d-day

  • Final Rehearsals

    Final Rehearsals
    Operation Fabius: Was the last rehearsals and was a success and D-day was given the 'go ahead'. 3rd-9th may.

  • Delay

    Delay
    This day was the planed d day landing but the weather was bad so they postponed it to the next day.

  • Landing

    Landing
    Official D-day landing. America, Britan, and Canada invade the shore of Normandy. (Utah and Omaha was invaded by the US at 6;30 am), Gold and Sword was invaded by Britan at 7:30) (Juno was invaded by Canada at 7:30)

  • Landing Breakdown

    Landing Breakdown
    12-2 am: Aircrafts dropped 13,000 troops behind the Germany's front line to cut them off.
    1-4 am: The Allies planned a distraction which was a fake attack to trick the Germanys into thinking the attack was happening somewhere else. It worked and the Germanys moved some of there defences.
    3 am: 300 Arial attack dropped 13000 bombs on the Germans front line on the beach.
    5 am: The Naval attacked the shore at all five beaches.
    That was everything they had to push the Germanys out.

  • Extra info

    Extra info
    There were roughly about 200,000 people in d-day on the Allies side:
    156,000 Troops
    11,000 Air Crafts
    6,939 Ships
    195,700 Soldiers
    There were over 450,000 troops were killed, wounded or went missing overall. (both sides)

  • Last efforts from Germany

    Last efforts from Germany
    Battle of the Bulge: Germany made an attempt to redeem themselves by penetrating the allies wall of defence, this lasted a month and was unsuccessful.

  • Germans Surrender

    Germans Surrender
    Germany surrendered to the Allies