D-Day

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D-Day
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Operation Overlord

• June 6, 1944 Great Britain and the U.S. invaded
  Normandy, France
• The largest naval attack in history
• 7,000 ships
• 160,000 soldiers
• By the end of the month
• 850,000 soldiers
• 148,000 vehicles
• 570,000 TONS of supplies

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Organized the attack
• Led the allies tovictory
• We will accept nothing less than full victory
• Eight years later,Ike became the34th
  president ofthe U.S.

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Plan of Attack
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Awaiting arrival
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Beach Obstacles
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Assaulting the beaches
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Coming ashore
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Taking cover from German machine guns
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German Defense
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German machine gun
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Bombing the beaches
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Bombing the beaches
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Capturing the beaches
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Taking Prisoners
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By the end of the Invasion
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Result

• By the end of the day, the Allies controlled the
  beaches of Normandy
• The Allies proceeded to flood France with more
  than 800,000 soldiers

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The (German) Empire Strikes Back

• The Battle of the Bulge Germanys final assault
  in France and Belgium
• After 120,000 German casualties and 80,000
  American casualties, Germany was defeated

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The Malmedy Massacre

• During the Battle of the Bulge, 150 American
  prisoners of war (POWs) who had surrendered were
  murdered by Nazis

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The Battle of the Bulge

• Hitler never regained the ability to launch and
  attack on the Allies.
• "This is undoubtedly the greatest American battle
  of the war and will, I believe, be regarded as an
  ever-famous American victory." British Prime
  Minister Winston Churchill

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Germany Retreats

• With the success of D-Day and the defensive stand
  in the Battle of the Bulge, Germany was forced to
  retreat
• Within a year, Germany surrendered and Hitler was
  dead

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