D-Day Invasion Strategy

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Section 1: Identification and Evaluation of sources
This investigation will focus on the question: ‘To what extent would the U.S.invasion on D-Day have been successful without the implemented U.S. strategies?’. D-Day also known as Operation Overlord was one of the largest military assaults in history. Planning for such an attack took extensive preparation and tactic. The investigation explores the strategies of the Normandy landings and the events leading up to it.
“The liberation of Europe from years of German control was the most detrimental part of successful Allied outcome. The London Controlling Section (LCS) devised an elaborate two-part plan called Operation Fortitude that SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force) helped …show more content…

The journal, American Eyewitness: D-Day: June 6 1944 American History By Leesburg is relevant as it provides eyewitness accountability of the Normandy InvasIon. A value of the origin is it provides historical hindsight which can be seen as reliable. A limitation of the origin is relying on memory as memory can be forgotten or risk being obviously bias. A limitation of the purpose is it stays at surface level not giving enough giving enough insight to other events. A limitation of the content is the vulnerability of false recollection and information being incorrectly conveyed to the reader. A short telling from the book, The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan was also relevant to my research because it provides factual and unbiased analysis of strategies implemented during D-Day; assessing the role of the Allies and Axis forces. This origin is valuable as Cornelius Ryan is a well-known Irish author who took interest into Operation Overlord whilst on a trip to Normandy conducting interviews with thousands of people gathering stories from both Germans and Allies. His …show more content…

Amid the Axis powers failed endeavor to attack Europe, the U.S. had backed off the extension of Axis powers and started to build troops and hardware in Britain. A right system in wants to guarantee the thrashing of the Axis powers was frequently in contradiction amongst Britain and the U.S. Operation Overlord was an arranged assault under the order of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. “By November of 1943 Britain concurred with the arrangement of a colossal activity to cross the English channel and free France". However the land and/or water capable assault would not be as straightforward as it is

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