D Day Plan Essay

Guiding question: how was D-day planned On June 6th 1944 it happened, D-day, a huge beach invasion, perhaps the largest in history, part of operation overlord, code name for battle of normandy. This was begining of a series of Attacks by allies which eventually lead to the battle of Berlin, which lead to the end of World War 2. This invasion that took 2 years to plan included operation fortitude a made up operation to trick the germans; a airborne mission to go behind enemy line and scatter the german defenses at the beach; then finally the beach invasion; the equipments also made a huge difference in saving soldiers live. This tragic victory with 209,000 allied casualty help end world war 2 at least a year in advance.

As the troops were moved from the Allied countries to England for the preparation of D-day, as the Allies would suspect, there will be an increasing amount of German and

Therefore the Allies came up with a hoax: Operation Fortitude. The allies set up a huge amount of inflated tanks, landing crafts, and set empty camps. As the web site mtholyoke.edu said “A fake radio network was setup to simulate the traffic of an army preparing to invade.” (mtholyoke.edu) The plan worked and successfully tricked the germans to move all the main forces to Pas de Calais in France, where the attack was believed to set place. The plan worked so well that even after the day of the attack the main german force still haven’t been moved.

Equipment are also a huge aspect that affected D-day, since topic the equipments of all the countries would be too wide, the paragraph would be mainly focusing on U.S. paratroopers. The most commonly used weapon by are M1 garand