Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Operation Overlord
- the defeat of Germany
- 6,500 crafts sailed to Normandy
- 10,000 allied fighter planes
- funnies: special under water tanks
- vital oil supplies through pipeline PLUTO
- artificial Harbours called Mulberry Piers
- Normandy was chosen to fool Germans who thought it would be @ Calais
- general Eisenhower
- Utah
- Omaha
- Gold
- juno
- sword
- Germans put up resiistance
- bloody Omaha
- 3,000 US soldiers killed
- D-day landing
- 6th June 1944
- by evening 155,000 Allied soldiers had arrived
- 1,000 funnies(tanks)
- Omaha bad choice
- cliffy beach
- Germans could shoot from cliffs as Allies came in
- Germany's still saw defeat
- Western Liberation from Nazi Occupation