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Operation overlord

What is operation overlord - Operation overlord was the plan for landing troops on the beaches, as well as some fighting.

Where was operation overlord - Operation overlord was in Normandy, France, Including the beachheads.

When was operation overlord - June 6, 1944 - July 24, 1944

Why did operation overlord happen - It created a second front in Europe for the Nazis, in order to free France and Europe from Nazi control

Who was a part of operation overlord - American, British, and Canadian forces were all a part of Operation Overlord

Sources: https://history.army.mil/brochures/normandy/nor-pam.htm

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Battle of Normandy

What is the Battle of Normandy - The battle of Normandy was the battles from the fighting on the D-Day beaches to, fighting for the Falaise pocket, liberating Paris, and then finally the race to the Seine river.

Where was the Battle of Normandy - The Battle of Normandy happened in the Normandy region of France.

When was the Battle of Normandy - The battle of Normandy happened from June 6, 1944 through August 29, 1944.

Why did the Battle of Normandy happen - The battle of Normandy happened in order for the allies to create a second front for the Nazis to have to fight in Europe, in order to weaken the Nazi military and to be able to more quickly free France and Europe form Nazi control.

Who was part of the Battle of Normandy - The Americans, the British, Canadians, French resistance forces, and the Nazis were all a part of the Battle of Normandy.

sources: https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/battle-of-normandy , https://www.normandy1944.info/home/battles/d-day-and-the-battle-of-normandy

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Sword beach

Where is Sword beach - Sword beach is "the easternmost beach of the five landing areas of the Normandy Invasion."

What are the sectors of Sword beach - In order from west to east the sectors of Sword beach are Oboe, Peter, Queen, and Roger.

When was the landing of Sword beach - The landing on Sword beach was on June 6, 1944.

Why did they land on Sword beach - They landed on Sword beach because the Nazis were expecting them to land somewhere else due to methods of deception, thus the Nazis were preparing forces in a different area. They also landed there to make the Nazis fight on two fronts.

Who landed on Sword beach - The 3rd (GB) Infantry division of the British army landed on Sword beach.

Who occupied Sword beach - Sword Beach was occupied by the 716th Infanterie Division of Nazi Germany.

Sources: https://www.britannica.com/place/Sword-Beach , https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/d-day/beaches/sword-beach

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Juno Beach

Where is Juno beach - Juno beach is "the second beach form the east among the five landing areas of the Normandy Invasion."

What are the sectors of Juno beach - The sectors of Juno beach, in order from west to east are Love, Mike, and Nan.

When was the landing of Juno beach - The landing of Juno beach was on June 6, 1944.

Why did they land on Juno beach - They landed on Juno beach because the Nazis were expecting them to land somewhere else due to methods of deception, thus the Nazis were preparing forces in a different area. They also landed there to make the Nazis fight on two fronts.

Who landed on Juno beach - The 3rd (Canada) Infantry Division landed on Juno beach.

Who occupied Juno beach - Juno beach was occupied by the 716th Infanterie Division of Nazi Germany.

Sources: https://www.britannica.com/place/Juno-Beach , https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/d-day/beaches/juno-beach

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Gold beach

Where is Gold beach - Gold beach is "the center beach of the five designated landing areas of the Normandy Invasion."

What are the sectors of Gold beach - The sector of Gold beach in order from west to east are How, Item, Jig, and King.

When was the landing of Gold beach - The landing of Gold beach was on June 6, 1944.

Why did they land on Gold beach - They landed on Gold beach because the Nazis were expecting them to land somewhere else due to methods of deception, thus the Nazis were preparing forces in a different area. They also landed there to make the Nazis fight on two fronts.

Who landed on Gold beach - The 50th (GB) Infantry division of the British army landed on Gold beach.

Who occupied Gold beach - Gold beach was occupied by the 716th Infanterie Division of Nazi Germany.

Sources: https://www.britannica.com/place/Gold-Beach , https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/d-day/beaches/gold-beach

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Omaha Beach

Where is Omaha beach - Omaha beach was the "second beach from the west among the five landing areas of the Normandy Invasion."

What are the sectors of Omaha beach - from east to west the sectors of Omaha beach are Charlie, Dog green, Dog white, Dog red, Easy green, Easy red, Fox green and Fox red.

When was the landing of Omaha beach - The initial landing on Omaha beach was on June 6, 1944.

Why did they land on Omaha beach - They landed on Omaha beach because the Nazis were expecting them to land somewhere else due to methods of deception, thus the Nazis were preparing forces in a different area. They also landed there to make the Nazis fight on two fronts.

Who landed on Omaha beach - The 1st and 29th infantry divisions of the United states landed on Omaha beach.

Who occupied Omaha beach - Omaha beach was occupied by the 352nd Infanterie division of Nazi Germany.

Sources: https://www.britannica.com/place/Omaha-Beach , https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/d-day/beaches/omaha-beach/2

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Utah Beach

Where is Utah beach - Utah beach is "the westernmost beach of the five landing areas of the Normandy Invasion."

What are the sectors of Utah beach - The sectors of Utah beach in order from west to east are Tare green, Uncle red, and Victor.

When was the landing of Utah beach - The landing of Utah beach was on June 6, 1944.

Why did they land on Utah beach - They landed on Utah beach because the Nazis were expecting them to land somewhere else due to methods of deception, thus the Nazis were preparing forces in a different area. They also landed there to make the Nazis fight on two fronts.

Who landed on Utah beach - The 4th US infantry Division of the United States landed on Utah beach.

Who occupied Utah beach - Utah beach was occupied by the 709th Infanterie Division of Nazi Germany.

Sources: https://www.britannica.com/place/Utah-Beach , https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/d-day/beaches/utah-beach

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Eisenhower library

How I do research at the Eisenhower library is I pull documents of the units that the 4th cavalry division was attached to and/or pull documents of the units that were attached to higher units alongside the 4th cavalry division.

Here are the books and boxes I want.

I want:

Book 1 (Airborne - Armored) - boxes 6 (82nd Airborne Division), 7-15 (101st Airborne Division), 41 (4th cavalry group mechanized), 61-67 (4th Armored Division), 136 (70th tank battalion), 138 (712th tank battalion), 142 (746th light tank battalion), 146 (759th tank battalion)

Book 2 (tank-artillery) - Boxes 272 (129th AAA gun battalion), 284, 288 (413th AAA gun battalion), 303, 304, 308 (537th AAA AW battalion), 350 (188th field artillery group), 386 (54th field artillery battalion), 391 (87th field artillery battalion), 425 (172nd field artillery battalion), 427 (188th field artillery battalion), 461 (391st field artillery battalion), 474 (690th field artillery battalion), 486 (957th field artillery battalion), 488 (981st field artillery battalion)

Book 3 (cavalry - engineer) - Boxes 540 (4th cavalry reconnaissance squadron), 570 (23rd armored engineer battalion), 619 (148th engineer combat battalion)

Book 4 (infantry division) - Boxes 791-792 (4th infantry division), 812-819 (9th infantry division), 857-867 (29th infantry division)

Book 6 (infantry division) - Boxes 1156-1158 (90th infantry division)

Book 7 (infantry regiments) - Boxes 1251 (8th infantry regiment), 1297-1299 (39th infantry regiment)

Book 8 (infantry regiments) - Boxes 1557 (607th tank destroyer battalion), 1562 (634th tank destroyer battalion), 1564 (703rd tank destroyer battalion), 1567 (899th tank destroyer battalion)

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D-Day

What was D-day - D-day was the beginning of Operation Overlord and the Invasion of Normandy.

Where was D-day - It was on the five codenamed beaches of the Cotentin peninsula aka the Cherbourg peninsula. The beaches were Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword Beach. Utah and and Omaha beaches were occupied by the American forces. Gold and Sword beaches were occupied by British forces. Juno beach was occupied by Canadian forces.

When was D-day - D-day took place on June 6th, 1944.

Why did D-day happen - It created a second front in Europe for the Nazis, in order to free France and Europe from Nazi control.

Who was a part of D-day - American, British, and Canadian forces were all a part of the D-day invasion.

Sources: https://www.reference.com/history/did-d-day-happen-f96f9c5ec94858f6 , https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Operation-Overlord-Battle-of-Normandy-Operation-Neptune-D-Day-and-Omaha , https://www.historyonthenet.com/the-5-d-day-beaches

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My research

Hello, my name is Lauren and I research the Invasion of Normandy and Operation Overlord in WWII. I research this because my great grandfather was involved in the invasion himself. I started my research at a very young age, as well as have been interested in WWII ever since I found out what it was.

Let me tell you a little bit about my research and why I do it. So as I stated previously, my great grandfather fought in the Invasion of Normandy. But he was in a small reconnaissance unit. Not only was he in a small reconnaissance unit that was constantly attaching and detaching to different bigger units. His units history for when he was there was also destroyed due to the possibility of enemies getting some very important information form those papers. Therefore all I have to go off of is his memoir and the history of those groups his unit was attached to to make up his story in the war.

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Operation Fortitude, the deception campaign that helped make D-Day a success.

During World War II the Allies were the unquestioned masters of deception and trickery.  The spooks of Bletchley Park had decrypted Germany’s enigma code, and unbeknownst to them the Allies were listening in to every secret German message.  The British had spies, secret agents, and double agents everywhere, and were masters of rooting out and eliminating enemy spies.  OSS agents supported resistance groups all over the Third Reich, who harassed German troops and sabotaged enemy infrastructure.  When the Allies invaded North Africa in 1942 they tricked the Germans into thinking they would invade Norway.  When the Allies invaded Sicily in 1943 they tricked the Germans into thinking they would invade Greece.  The Normandy Operation involved no less subterfuge, and in fact an entire disinformation campaign called Operation Fortitude would help make the Normandy invasion a success.

Operation Fortitude was a campaign within a larger campaign to fool the German high command into believing that the great invasion would come at any place other than Normandy.  The emphasis of Operation Fortitude South was to trick the Germans into believing that the invasion would occur at the Pas-de-Calais, located 200 miles up the coast from Normandy.  Calais was a reasonable choice for an invasion, being the narrowest part of the English Channel and the port used the English to invade France during the Middle Ages.  The deception was built of two parts; the ghost army and the misinformation campaign.

To make the invasion believable, an entire fake army was created called “The Ghost Army”.  The hypothetical invasion of Calais involved a fictional 1st US Army Group to be commanded by Gen. George S. Patton.  An entire fictitious army was created to fool the Germans, which included fake buildings made of plywood, tent encampments, inflatable dummy tanks, dummy trucks, fake landing craft, and fake aircraft. To make the army seem real, loudspeakers broadcasted engine noises, artillery sounds, and other camp noises to recreate the sound of a busy encampment.

To complete the deception Gen. George Patton himself inspected the camp, giving speeches and posing for photo’s with his fictitious men, photo’s which were conveniently “leaked” to German intelligence.

The second part of the deception was the misinformation campaign, which utilized more cloak and dagger than the Ghost Army.  Allied communications broadcaster bogus messages which included fake orders and communications between Allied High Command and the Ghost Army.  Finally the British Secret Service leaked false information to German Intelligence through the use of double agents, German spies who had been convinced to defect to the Allies.

The Germans took the deception hook, line, and sinker.  As a result of Fortitude South the fortifications of the Atlantic Wall were strongest at Calais and the bulk of German forces were stationed at Calais as well.  More importantly most of Germany’s Panzer (tank) forces were situated near Calais to repeal the fake Allied invasion.  It is very fortunate the Allied forces did not have to face German Panzers during the opening days of the Normandy Invasion.  In fact the deception worked so well that even as Allied forces were storming Normandy, Hitler ordered his troops to remain in Calais, believing the Normandy invasion to be an Allied trick.  By the time it was realized that Normandy was the real invasion, it was too late.

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American WWII Army combat soldiers (101st Airborne Division) with Mohawk style haircuts paint each others faces with face paint on the eve of their jump into the invasion of Normandy, June 1944

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Never forget June 6th, 1944…

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Operation Overlord Normandy, France June 6, 1944

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Scenes From D-Day, Then and Now On June 6, 1944, Allied soldiers descended on the beaches of Normandy for D-Day, an operation that turned the tide of the Second World War against the Nazis, marking the beginning of the end of the conflict. Reuters photographer Chris Helgren compiled archive pictures taken during the invasion and went back to the same places to photograph them as they appear today.