One of the most memorable and spectacular events of World War 2 was Dday, the allied operation aimed at defeating the Germans and ending their hegemony, thus liberating northwest Europe.
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The invasion of Nazioccupied France was codenamed Operation OVERLORD and took place on Tuesday 6 June 1944. Originally it was planned for the 5th of June but was delayed because of poor weather. A severe storm battered the Normandy coast, even making the German commander in charge of defending the North French coast, Erwin Rommel, believe that an attack would be highly unlikely. He even went back home to Herrlingen in Germany for his wife's birthday. This error of judgement gave the allies an additional advantage of surprise after military weather stations predicted a spell of calmer weather early the next morning.

The Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault in what was to become the largest seaborne invasion in history.
In effect it opened a second front to attack the Germans, the first front being the Russian frond. The aim was to weaken the Germans by forcing them to divide their defences over two fronts.

The Americans, British an Canadians formed the core of the troups but it should not be forgotten that also Australian, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French, Greek, New Zealand, Norwegian, Rhodesian and Polish participated in naval, air and ground support. In total 2 million men were made available for the invasion. In total 156,000 men participated in the first attack wave.

There are three important activities that played a crucial role in the success of Dday, namely the use of glider planes to transport large numbers of troups, the provisional Mulberry harbours and Pluto, the Pipeline Under The Ocean to provide essential fuel supply to the allied military vehicles.

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In part2 we will address the military advances of the allied troups towards Paris in the Battle of Normandy.

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Source: Archive.org, BeeldEnGeluid, Library of Congress
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