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D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944 Introduction This research

This research paper discusses the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, the overall strategy for the operation of the invaders and defenders, operational planning and preparations and the fighting on that fateful day. Allied strategy was brilliantly conceived. German defensive strategy was muddled. Allied operational plans and preparations for the invasion were basically sound, except for the failure to plan for exploitation of the lodgement on the French coast, overreliance on pre-invasion bombardment of landing areas and other technical errors. German plans and preparations suffered from a divided command and certain fundamental weaknesses in their force structure.

The armed forces of both sides gave a good account of themselves on D-Day, but the tide of battle turned in favor of the Allies principally because of the tactical surprise they achieved, their superiority in the air and at sea, their massive logistical support, the initiative of tactical commanders and the sluggishness of the response of the Germans, particularly their failure to make more effective use of their armored forces.

Allied Strategy. As early as the fall of 1941, American and British military planners gave priority to defeating Germany first, a decision which was endorsed by President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Arcadia Conference in Washington, D.C., held less than a month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the next two years, the primary problem facing the Allies was when a cross-Channel attack should and could be launched. Engaged in a desperate struggle to repel the Nazi invaders, the Soviet Union brought strong pressure on the western Allies to launch a Second Front at the earliest possible date. However, the Americans and the British disagreed on the feasibility and, therefore, the timing of any attempt to attack Festung Europa. According to Hastings, "from December 1941 until June 1944 it wa...

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