2. “Invasion Is On”
• June 6, 1944
• GOAL – for the Allies to invade
Normandy, France to gain a foothold in
Europe
• largest amphibious assault in history
• required extensive and precise planning
5. Planning
• weather
– originally scheduled for June 5th
• spring tide
• full moon
• other false operations had to be achieved
prior to the invasion
– false operations – falsely fabricated
operations leaked by the Allies in order to trick
the Nazis into thinking the invasion would
happen at Calais
6. Deception
• Operation Fortitude
– tricked the Germans into believing that the
invasion of Europe would take place at Calais
rather than Normandy
7. D-Day Information
• Dwight D. Eisenhower – Supreme
Commander of the Allied Forces
• 156,000 troops invaded
• 11,590 aircraft used
• 6,939 ships used
• by the end of the invasion…
– 326,547 troops had landed
– 54,186 vehicles had landed
– 104,428 tons of supplies had landed
8. D-Day Timeline
June 6, 1944
1:00 am: Allied paratroops are dropped behind German lines
3:30 am: Assault troops start loading onto Allied boats back in
England
5:58 am: 702 Allied warships start firing towards the German-
guarded coast.
6:30 am-Noon: The battle for Omaha beach was one of the
most
difficult and bloodiest.
7:30 pm: The Germans hadn't surrendered, but the Allied
troops had
secured the German posts along the coastline, just not
enough inland to avoid German artillery attacks on
unloading points.
