1. What do you think when you see this quote?
Said by Dwight D. Eisenhower
What do you think when you see this quote?

3. Planning Soviets had done most fighting in Europe
Stalin wanted a U.S. and G.B. attack
Churchill nervous
Couldn’t cross Channel because of U-Boats
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet in Teheran, Iran November, 1943
Massive Allied invasion to be called Operation Overlord

4. Invasion of Normandy Supreme Commander – Eisenhower
Involved 21 American divisions and 26 British, Canadian, and Polish divisions
Strike beaches of Normandy
Code names: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword
Patton’s fictional army in southeast England
Across from the area of Calais in France
Russia had no troops that were involved, Fictional Army- Literal Cardboard Cutouts, radio traffic, unusable ships and existed on paper-Bring up the movie the Patriot!

5. Beaches of Normandy CALAIS
1=Utah (American), 2=Omaha (American), 3=Gold (British), 4=Juno (Canadian), and 5=Sword (British)

7. Timeline of D-Day 00:00 Hours 03:00 Hours 04:00 Hours
Airborne Landing Begins
Paratroopers were to take care of roads and bridges
Darkness and foreign territory killed many
03:00 Hours
Heavy Bombing Raids
Massive raids against German defense positions
04:00 Hours
Allied Invasion Fleet Arrives
3,000 landing craft, 2,500 ships and 500 naval vessels arrive
Go thru this as the day in the life of a student

8. Timeline Cont. 06:30 Hours 07:25 Hours 12:00 Hours U.S. Landings Begin
Land at Utah and Omaha
Tide carried the landing craft away from targets at Utah
Most opposition at Omaha Beach-Many casualties
07:25 Hours
British and Canadian Landings Begin
Land at Gold, Juno, and Sword
12:00 Hours
British and Canadian forces push inland
200 Americans killed and wounded at Omaha and only gained 2,000 yards
By the time you would eat lunch the fighting started to push farther inland away from the beaches, Most casualties were suffered at Omaha Beach

9. Timeline Cont.
16:00 Hours
Hitler Authorizes German Counter Attack
Realized that the real attack was not at Calais
North France
Sent 1st Panzer Corps
Total Landed Troops: 130,000 by sea and 29,000 by air

10. War Correspondence on D-Day

11. End of D-Day D-Day was seen as a successful, but also unsuccessful
Victory
Allies landed in France
Could start their advances- 2 front war
Strategic surprise
Not necessarily a victory
Many soldiers lost their lives
D-Day did not go as planned
D-Day- Soldiers washed away because of the tide, Paratroopers blew away

12. Assignment Create a timeline of your day
Have increments of 1 hour-2 hours
Start at 12:00 AM and go until 11:59 PM