D-Day

= **D-Day** =

**"The Greatest Generation"**

 * By: Keith Oliphant,**



**Who Was Involved:**
The battle of D-Day was between Britain, America, France and Canada against Germany. The Allies' thought that they should have started a invasion because of Germany’s invasion on poland. After the invasion of poland, Dwight D. Eisenhower had led the invasion of D Day. During this day there were 5,000 ships, 11,000 airplanes and over 150,000 men who invaded 60 miles of Normandy beach. D Day was a very special day because this destroyed Hitler, from conquering all of Europe.



**Where / When did it take place:**
The invasion took place on June 6,1944 on Normandy beach, North Western Coast of France. The allies' had set up a fake dummy army, on the seaport of France. This army was to make believe that it was attacking the French seaport of Calais. The invasion of D Day was not just located at Normandy there were many other beaches included such as, Sword, Juno, Golden, Ohmaha, and Utah. This invasion had lasted for a month and had definitely made a mark on World War II.



**What Happened:**

 * On June 6, 1944 allied troops had launched an invasion attack on Germany, at Normandy beach, North Western Coast of France. This attack had been planned for two years by the allies'. Originally, this attack was not suppose to be on June 6, but since the weather was so terrible the invasion attack had kept on changing its' dates. This plan was to launch an invasion attack on France and to not allow Germany to destroy it. The attack took place specifically on the coast of Normandy because the Germans were not defending this area. General Dwight D. Eisenhower was the one who decided to launch the attack on North Eastern France. To disrupt Hitler and the Nazi's and keep them guessing, about where the invasion was going to take place. The allies' had created a huge dummy army that was make believe to fake attack the French Seaport of Calais. The allies' also had set up bombers to bomb the coast and to disrupt Germany and its army. During the invasion there were 5,000 ships, 11,000 airplanes and over 150,000 service men who had lead the invasion. 15% of the troops who stormed the beach, had never saw combat before. The code for the invasion on D Day was operation overlord. At the end of battle there were 2,700 men dead on the beaches. America had conquered 60 miles of beach after the invasion. This invasion is known as the biggest seaborne invasion in history.**

**Significance / Impact on WWII:**
====**media type="custom" key="9571480" align="left"The signifcance of D Day had a huge impact on World War II, Without the invasion Germany and the Nazi's would had eventually conquered all of Europe. The invasion pushed German forces back, and took alot of their land away. This had made it easier for the allies' to destroy the Third Reich, which was Hitlers empire. After the war the allies' had 9,000 troops dead or wounded, only 100,000 had made it ashore. This is important because even though the allie's had lost alot of troops, this invasion was known as the end to Hitler of success. D Day had made a huge mark by " Beginning to the end for Nazi Germany."**====



PRIMARY SOURCE- "I was the rifle sergeant and followed Lieutenant Anderson off the boat, and we did what we could rather than what we had practiced doing for so many months in England. There was a rather wide expanse of beach, and the Germans were not to be seen at all, but they were firing at us, rapidly, with a great deal of small-arm fire." (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/sfeature/sf_voices_04.html) **Sources Used? **

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