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D-DAY
By: Emily-Laura-Ron-Nao
D-Day
June 6th 1944
• At dawn on June 6th, 1944 Operation Overlord began.
• The invasion forces landed on 5 beaches along the Normandy
coast: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword.
• On the first day, 2,700 vessels and 1,897 landing craft sailed.
The cargo was 130,000 soldiers, 12,000 vehicles, 2,000 tanks
and 10,000 tons of stores.
Key Commanders
• General Dwight David Eisenhower• Was supreme Commander. He was in charge of all Allied troops in the
European theatre
• General Bernard Law Montgomery• Was commander of British Eighth Army-He was appointed to be
Eisenhower’s chief deputy in planning Operation Overlord
• Field Marshal Erwin Rommel• Was relieved from command of the famed “Afrika Corps” before their final
defeat in North Africa.
• Adolf Hitler• Was leader of Germany and commander of German forces from 1934.
Hitler began his conquering of Europe in Poland in 1939
Evidence
• More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or
wounded -- but more than 100,000 Soldiers began the
march across Europe to defeat Hitler.
• It was the most direct way to attack Germany. But
Hitler selected General Keselring because his plan was
to block their advance at every mountain range.
Significance
• D-Day was the turning point of World War II.
It marked the start of the Allies' invasion of
Western Europe and paved the way for Allied
victory.
• D-Day, remains the largest seaborne invasion in
history, involving nearly three million troops
crossing the English Channel from England to
Normandy in occupied France.
Cause & Effect
• -One effect was that it stopped Europe from falling
into Communist Hands.
• -The cause was to take down the nazi front occupying
northern France and allow the allies to move in from
the west as the red army moved in from the east to
bring down the third reich.
Five W’s
• What? D-day is a term often used in military parlance
to denote the day on which a combat attack or
operation is to be initiated.
• Who? D-day June 6, 1944 - the day of the Normandy
Landings.
• Where? The beaches of Normandy
Five W’s
• When? Dawn June 6th, 1944. Normandy Beaches
• How? The assault was conducted in two phases:
– an air assault landing of 24,000 American, British,
Canadian and Free French airborne troops shortly after
midnight
– amphibious landing of Allied infantry and armored
divisions on the coast of France commencing at 6:30. There
were also subsidiary 'attacks' mounted under the codenames
Operation Glimmer and Operation Taxable to distract the
German forces from the real landing areas
On the north coast
of France the
Germans were
sheltered, and guns
were loaded and
ready to fire. This
proved deadly for
the Allies on DDay.
Cromwell and Churchill
Tanks
Commanders- Omar Bradley
-Leonard Gerow –Dwight
Eisenhower- Lawson Collins
Soldiers going in for the attack early
morning. Most of them were sick
from the crashing waves.
A mass of men and material filled the oceans and beaches
of Normandy during D-Day invasion.
Troops
taking
over
Army’s First Division on
the morning of June 6th
Allied armed men landed on five France beaches. The beaches were codenamed
Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword.
Canadian troops helped
Canadian soldiers 14,000 another 450 were to drop behind enemy lines by
parachute or glider. The Royal Canadian Navy supplied about 10,000 sailors
along with ships.
D-Day Map
Soil samples were collected in
condoms. On two nights they went
ashore to survey what would become
the Omaha beach.
About 155,000 soldiers, 5,000 ships and landing craft, 50,000 vehicles and
11,000 planes were massed for the greatest seaborne invasion in history
Videos
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPU4p7
UQOtU&feature=fvw
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHXTb
BdcfEg&feature=related
Questions
• Q:What does the ‘D’ in D-Day stand for?
• A:D-Day and H-Hour are general terms used
for the day and hour to mark the beginning of
an important event
• Q:Which Allied nations took part in the
fighting?
• A: The majority of troops who landed on the
D-Day beaches were from the United
Kingdom, Canada and the US.
References
• 1.http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.rnsubmus.co.uk/images/d
day/02%2520-%2520D2.Day%2520map.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.rnsubmus.co.uk/dday/dday.htm
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BwQ9QEwBA
• 3.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_Landings
• 4.http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=75
• 5.http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/06/02/f-dday-history.html
References
• 6.http://books.google.ca/books?id=neTjKGZsi
YwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Dday#v=onepage&q=&f=false
• 7.http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1749.html