First we started reviewing the powerpoint a little bit, and going into some new stuff.
D-Day-June 6, 1944
-Operation Overlord
-allied invasion of Nazi controlled France(omaha and Utah beach)
-It was conducted in two phases
1.an airborne assault landing of 24,000 British, American, Canadian and Free French Airborne Paratroopers shortly after midnight
2.an amphibios landing of allied infantry and armored divisions of the coast of France
-there was also decoy operations to distract the Geramn forces fromt he real landing
-the operation was the largest amphibious invasion in world history
-Roughly 10,000 Allied Casualty (6,600 US)
The Atlantic Wall
-an extensive system of coastal fortification built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the western coast of Europe
-built as a defensive agianst an acticipated Allied invasion of the mainland continent from Great Britian
Battle Facts
-the snowiest weather "in memory" in the forest of the German/Belgium Boarder
-over a million men died
-the battle of the bulge was the worst for american casualty
Hitlers suicide
-he took sionide and shot himself in the head, and was to be burned
V-E Day May 8, 1945
-the day the war was over
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