Informative Essay On D Day

D-Day
How much do you know about D-Day? Have you ever wanted to know what happened on D-Day? Well you’re going to learn today because we’re going to talk about why D-Day happened, what was it like on the beaches, and why did the allies attack where they did? So get ready for your brain to get some knowledge!
The allies (America, Canada, and Britain) were planning an attack on Germany for a while but they haven’t gotten the chance to invade. But you have to have a motive to attack and the allies motive was Hitler. Hitler was pretty much the leader of Germany at the time. He was killing millions of people and putting them in concentration camps, most of the people were Jews. So the allies planned an invasion of France and then they would march on to Germany where they would end Hitler's “Reign.”

On June 6, 1944 the allies started to invade the beaches.

Some of the beaches were easy to take but others not so much. Omaha beach was the worst one. They allies had tried to pick beaches that were flatish so they could take them easier, but this one had a steep cliff that they had to climb to even reach the Germans. Before they could be able to climb they had to get to the wall while hundreds of bullets rain upon them. Also, it rained a lot before the attack so the beach was really muddy and hard to move through. The beach that is most well known is the attack on Normandy Beach. Like all the other beaches the Germans were in Pillboxes, which are pretty much mini bunkers, that had machine guns inside them. About 30,000 men attacked Normandy beach which was the most men sent to one beach. Another beach that was attacked was Utah beach. It was the easiest one to take of the three because the Germans were overwhelmed by the number of men attacking from the front and the amount of paratroopers attacking from the back. So they surrendered very

quickly.
The allies needed to plan this invasion very carefully to make sure that it was very successful. They wanted to attack beaches that did not have big hills to run up and cliffs that were going to slow down the soldiers. They chose Normandy, Omaha, and Utah and a couple others. The ones they chose were good choices except for Omaha beach because it had the one thing they were trying to avoid which was a cliff. Other than that the attacks went exactly as planned.
So now you know more about D-Day. The places that you know D-Day the most from reading this is why D-Day happened, what was it like on the beaches on D-Day, and you know why the allies attacked where they did on D-Day. Overall D-Day was a horrible day but at the same time it was a major success for what the allies were trying to accomplish. Which was to attack Germany and end World War II.