Notes
- Operation Overlord
- Allies open a second front in France against the Germans
- Land on five beaches named Utah and Omaha (American) Juno (Canadian) Sword and Gold (British and Polish)
- Rommel felt that whoever won the beaches that day would win the war
Battle for Normandy - summer 1944
Falaise Gap
Liberation of Paris
Operation Market Garden - Sept. 1944 - Ploy to end the war before the Russians got to Berlin
The Battle of the Bulge - German counteroffensive
Russian attack on Berlin (300,000 Soviet troops)
Hitler commits suicide in Bunker
Russians and Americans meet
Summary
Idea of D-Day was to open a western front to help Russia. Happened over the span of 5 different beaches including the countries Canada, USA, and Britain.
Quote
No thoughts had I of anything,
Or at least that's what I thought;
I even thought I couldn't think,
But now I think I never thought.
― Christopher Miller
Or at least that's what I thought;
I even thought I couldn't think,
But now I think I never thought.
― Christopher Miller
subjunctive question
Would D-Day have been as successful if a different country was subbed into the drop instead of Britain, Canada, or the USA?