Wednesday 25 May 2011

D-Day Invasion

The Allies dispatched "Operation Overload", which was an attempt to invade Europe. The Allies did not want a repeat of the failure that took place in Dieppe. To prevent this, the Allies had rehearsed the plan of Operation Overload and had it all precisely planned out. The Allies had put their attack on five particular beaches. It has been reported that those beaches all had code names of the following: Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha, and Utah. Because of the Allies' rehersals, they had the capability of fracturing the lines of communication and transportation by dropping soldiers who were trained to parachute from airplanes onto combat areas. These paratroopers were dropped behind bombing targets and enemy lines on the beaches. The soldiers fought in bravery on foot, but they also had an abundant amount of naval support, which allowed the Allies to obtain more troops. Equally important, they also had the privilege of gaining more military vehicles and supplies.


A must see clip of the invasion:



If that wasn't successful enough, the Allies were even more successful since no one else was aware of this invasion. The Allies had an innate capacity of keeping Operation Overload secluded from the Germans. It was heard that the Germans had reckoned that they would get attacked from the north. To say that the Allies had luck is an understatement. Due to a storm, it deferred the leading attack. Overall, the D-Day invasion proved to distinguish how the German defence was not coordinated in a potent manner and that the Allies did a dexterous job at their arrangement of the invasion.

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