D-Day, 6 June 1944: Part One - The Strategy (original) (raw)

D-Day, 6 June 1944: Part Two - The Opposing Forces

This article is the second in the In The Footsteps Tours series commemorating the 80th Anniversary of D-Day. It covers the Opposing Forces in Normandy at the time of the invasion of Northwest Europe by the Allies at the beginning of the liberation of Northwest Europe in the Second World War.

D-Day Part Three - The Build-up to the Invasion

This article is the third in the In The Footsteps Tours series commemorating the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, 6 June 1944. It covers the Build-up to the Invasion before the Allied Forces landed in Normandy, France at the beginning of the Liberation of Northwest Europe during the Second World War.

D-Day 1944: Air Power Over the Normandy Beaches and Beyond

1994

: Describes Operation Overlord -the Normandy invasion -in terms of military planning, logistics, and operations. Discusses the Normandy Invasion of 1944, and how important air power was to its success. Illustrated with black and white photographs and battle maps. Includes a list of suggested readings. This booklet is adapted and edited from a longer book by the same author: "Strike From the Sky, The History of Battlefield Air Attack, 1911-1945," published by the Smithsonian Institution Press in 1989.

Message Drafted by General Eisenhower in Case the D-Day Invasion Failed and Photographs Taken on D-Day. The Constitution Community: The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

2000

Planning for "Operation Overlord" had been under way for about a year when General Dwight Eisenhower, commander of all the Allied forces in Europe, was ordered in February 1944 to invade the continent. Thousands of troops from the United States, Great Britain, France, Canada, and other nations were assembled in southern England and trained for the complicated amphibious action against Normandy (France). In addition to the troops, supplies, ships, and planes also were gathered. The three primary source documents used in this lesson, two D-Day photographs and a message drafted by Eisenhower in case the invasion failed, deal with the Normandy invasion. The lesson relates to Article I, Section 8, Paragraphs 11 through 16, of the U.S. Constitution which grants Congress the power to declare war and provide for and regulate a military force. The unit also addresses the success of the military force on D-Day. The lesson correlates to the National History Standards and to the National Standards for Civics and Government. It presents the historical background of the Normandy invasion (with six resources); and suggests diverse teaching activities for classroom implementation, including brainstorming/group discussion, document analysis, research projects, class discussion, creative writing, oral history, and a student research paper. Appended are a written document analysis worksheet and the primary source documents. (BT) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.

DV16 Op Avalanche - the invasion of Italy 1943 at Salerno

Defence Viewpoints, 2023

A December 1943 letter from Private Hickman Dear Mum, Dad You must by now be concerned, not having had a letter from me for such a long time. Well the news of the landings in Italy must by now be well known all over England, so I am able to tell you that about seventy lads including myself were drafted into the Foresters to make them up to strength for the assault at Salerno. We only knew that it was for real when a dive bomber shot at us in the landing craft. We landed on the beaches in the early morning of the 9th Sept.