The Influence Of D-Day

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D-Day was the largest attack during World War II out of all of the D-Day’s. It is called that to keep when they were going to attack a secret, and so that the enemy did not know they were coming if news got out. For example, they would say they are attacking at H-Hour and D-day as a code. D-Day took place on Tuesday, June 6th 1944 during the Battle of Normandy. D-Day was the start to operation “overlord” which was the codename for the Battle of Normandy. It was an allied invasion between the liberation of Western Europe to attack Germany. The allied forces were America, Canada, and the British. The allied forces landed on fifty miles of beach in France’s Normandy region. This invasion was one of the largest assaults in history and the landing …show more content…

A few of the beaches impacted were Utah beach, Omaha Beach, Gold beach, Juno beach, and Sword beach (those were the beaches code names given to them so enemies could not find out the plans). The attack lasted until August and the Germans had moved out of northern France liked the allied forces were hoping they would and France became liberated from the invasion. People around the world started turning away from the Nazis which made Hitler nervous. General Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded the operation and was in charge of the invasion. He originally planned for the attack to be on June 5th but the weather was bad and the invasion was postponed to the next day. D-Day is also important for people to know and to learn about because the attack was an international effort. So many different countries joined in to help in the battle and gave a lot of support in goods and in soldiers helping fight. Working together helped to get more goods, more soldiers, more military machines, and many other things that helped to fight in the battle. Another example of why D-Day was important is that it was the attack that allowed all of the allies to defeat Germany, and for them to do that, they needed to invade Europe. D-Day was an important battle for these reasons because it was a large step forward for the allied countries involved and put the Germans in their place and especially showed Adolf Hitler that they were serious about what they wanted and were not afraid to attack with all of their forces if they needed to do

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