Monday April 4

D-Day-Operation Overlord.

D-Day, the day the stuff hits the fan. The day it goes down. 2 phases.

1.Airborne assault at midnight flinging paratroopers at the enemy.

2. Amphibious assault with the boats. 160,00 troops, largest amphibious attack in history. Roughly 10,000 ally casualties.

 

Atlantic Wall, Nazi fortification along Atlantic coast. Built as defense from an ally invasion from mainland Great Britain.

 

BATTLE OF THE BULGE.

Hitler's last hurrah. Large offensive trying to push back US and British troops, worked for a while but then failed.

Eva Braun married Hitlah. SUICIDE TIME IN THE BUNKER.

V-E Day May 8, 1945

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