D-Day and the Normandy Campaign - The National WWII Museum
Operation Fortitude successfully deceived German High Command into expecting a landing at Pas-de-Calais. Instead, the Allies targeted a 50-mile stretch of Normandy coastline. The plan had two components: Operation Neptune, the naval assault phase, and Operation Overlord, the broader invasion strategy.
Planning for D-Day: Preparing Operation Overlord
Despite their early agreement on a strategy focused on defeating “Germany First,” the US and British Allies engaged in a lengthy and divisive debate over how exactly to conduct this strategy before they finally settled on a plan for Operation Overlord, the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
D-Day Timeline | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
On June 6, 1944, Western Allied forces launched Operation Overlord, the massive Allied invasion of Normandy, France, to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe. The timeline below features some of the key events of D-Day, the greatest amphibious landing in history.
80th Anniversary of D-Day - The National WWII Museum
On June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched Operation Overlord—the codename for the massive Allied invasion of Normandy, France—with more than 150,000 troops. Ending with approximately 20,000 casualties on both sides, those who took part witnessed one of the most pivotal battles against Axis forces and the beginning of a prolonged, costly, and ultimately successful …
Research Starters: D-Day - The Allied Invasion of Normandy
The Allied assault in Normandy to begin the Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Western Europe was code-named Operation Overlord. It required two years of planning, force and logistics build-up, and extensive training by the United States and Great Britain in the British Isles.
D-Day: The Allies Invade Europe - The National WWII Museum
In May 1944, the Western Allies were finally prepared to deliver their greatest blow of the war, the long-delayed, cross-channel invasion of northern France, code-named Overlord. General Dwight D. Eisenhower was supreme commander of the operation that ultimately involved the coordinated efforts of 12 nations.
D-Day Doctrine: Six Elements for a Successful Landing
These six are defined as: Command and Control, Ship-to-Shore Movement, Naval Fires Support, Air Support, Establishment of a Beach Head, and Communications and Logistics. To fully understand the complexity and difficulty of Operation Overlord, an appreciation of these components is required. Command and Control
Operation Neptune: A Tale of Two Landings
While the Overlord operation was a combined effort of land, sea, and air forces, the amphibious assault plan was given the code name Neptune. The Allied naval forces for the invasion fell under the command of Royal Navy Admiral Bertram Ramsay, who was designated Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Naval Expeditionary Force Commander.
Operation Jubilee: The Raid at Dieppe - The National WWII Museum
Launched on August 19, 1942, Operation Jubilee was a continuation of these tactics. Of the many things that made this raid different, it was the first time Americans would participate in ground combat in France. Originally conceived as Operation Rutter, the raid at Dieppe was supposed to accomplish a range of missions.
Forgotten Fights: Operation Dragoon and the Decline of the Anglo ...
Operation Dragoon (formerly Anvil) was a hugely successful Allied operation that occurred in southern France in August, 1944. It was part of the Allied campaigns that occupied 1944. Unlike other venerated and popular operations of that year, namely operations Overlord and Market Garden, historians have relegated Dragoon to passing mentions in ...