African Front
Stalin wanted us to openly invade Europe to get the Germans out of Soviet Union but we went to North Africa instead. Stalin wasn't very happy. There was a lot of Vichy French troops in North Africa and they were on the Axis side. They slowly came over to the Allied powers, and Hitler was very mad about this.
Rommel- main Germany general, Montgomery- main British general, Patton Jr.- main U.S. general.
Rommel died from like a forced suiced and Patton died in a car crash, both deaths aren't really what you'd imagine with such great generals.
Tanks and planes became big in desert warfare, there wasn't really any place for them to hid though, but tanks could just go right through the flat land.
Italian Front
Italian front had more deaths and wounded by the infantry.
Continental Italy- Sep 3-9 Operation Baytown, Avalanche, and Slapstick happened. Sicily- largest island in Maditerranean sea, first place attacked. The Apinin Mountains created a struggle for the Allied powers, but they started invading in Sicily then moved all the way up. More people died in this then any other.
D-Day & European Front
D-Day was the alled invasion of Nazi Europe, largest amphibious military invasion in history. There was a lot of ground and naval forces. June 6th, 1944 D- Day (Operation Over Lord). GB, France, America, and Canada are the countries that invaded France's coast. It was a sucess because June 4-5 were stormy so Hitler let some of his troops leave. Allies had strong forces, and we led the Axis powers to believe that we were going to attack further north. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the overall supreme commander of the invasion forces. Marshal Bernard Montgomery was the commander of the fround forces on d- day. General Patton was in command of the "1st army group" which only was used to confuse the Axis powers.
Liberation of Paris, 19 August until the 25th, This battle marked the end of Operation Over Lord(D- day). The German general that was having control of France surrendered.
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