2. George C. Marshall led the
planning of operation overlord
Everyone be leaved that he would
lead the invasion but he decided to
stay in Washington and advise
president Roosevelt
General Eisenhower led the
invasion instead
3. The allies gave germany false
clues to make them be leave the
invasion would be near Calais on
the English channel
The allies true target was
Normandy
On June 6,1944 the invasion began
4.
5. Aircrafts caring paratrooper wore the first wave
of the attack
The job of the paratroopers was to block roads to
the beaches and stop Germany troops from getting
to the beach and so that the allies could move
inland once the invasion was complete
The drops did not go as planed because of darkness,
confutation, and enemy fire.
All most all of the teems did not land where they
wore sabots to men fond themselves alone and
looking for each other it cased much confusion
As troops were dropped they wore picked off by
German troops
One out of five men was killed, wounded, or
imprisoned
6.
7. Five beaches wore targeted the sword
beach, Juno beach, Gold beach, Omaha
beach, and Utah beach
The U.S. would invade two islands Utah,
and the Omaha beaches
The Canadians goy one beaches Juno
beach
The British got two beaches the Sword,
and the Gold beaches
The troops would be drooped at the
beaches by naïve and use shuttles to get
to shore
8. When the Canadian troops landed
the tide was up and there wore
mines under the water and when the
shuttles hit the bottom they wore
destroyed 30% of settles wore lost
Most men had to wade on to the
beach
Once they wore on the beach they
wore hit with a wall of enemy fire
9. This beach was the hardest to
capture
It was six miles wide and the
largest of the 5 beaches
It was over looked by cliffs
The beach was lined with dragons
teeth and heavily mined
10. The capture of this beach was the
most successful
The beach was littered with
Rommel's and mines
German defense had been
neutralized by constant and
accurate naval bombardment
11. The area around the beach was
lightly defended compared to the
others
The troops met with little
resistant's
The troops moved swiftly off the
beach and met up with paratrooper
that had landed in land
12. German fortifications wore weak compared to the
ones on Omaha beach
The paratroopers dropped in this area created
confusion and uncertainty for the Germans in this
area
The air drop went according to plan but the sea
landing did not go so well
Strong currents took the landing crafts 2000
meters away from original landing Pont
Where they landed was less defended
Not nearly as many men wore lost as on Omaha
beach
Commander ordered advance and by noon they had
met up with group on paratroopers
13. All beaches resulted in allied
victory
Not long after they recaptured
Normandy