Operation "Overload" or better known as D-Day was on June 6, 1944. This invasion was a result of four years of planning. Many people helped plan this invasion, which was the largest amphibian invasion in history. The men who planned this assault on the beach of France knew there would be great losses but would be worth it to help end Hitler's rein of terror. It was forecasted to have about 10,000 soldier's dead. To help reduce this number D-Day was planned for June 4th so that low tide and first light would coincide.

Germany knew that the Allies would try something and would probably attack the coast, but was not sure on exactly where the attack would occur. Hitler decided to use the help of retired Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and made him Commander a

When the big day finally came many men were very scared but knew this was something they had to do. This would help end the terror known as the NAZI party's rein in Europe. There were priests and other men in different religions blessing the brave men going into battle. Some were even so brave to go for the rip and bless the men just minutes before they were leave the boats and charge the beaches. To get the more then 5,000 ships of all sorts to their drop points, mines sweepers went through the area clearing about 10 paths toward the beaches. To interrupt what the Germans were going to do against the Allied attack the warships opened fire with the most intense bombardment in navel history. The Allied force was huge; there were 150,000 troops (11 divisions), 1,500 tanks (2 divisions), 5,300 ships and landing crafts, 12,000 airplanes, and 20,000 airborne troops. The invasion force was broken up into five divisions, UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO, and SWARD. The Americans wante!

The bombers of that day and the day before had problems because of heavy clouds. The clouds made it very difficult to see their targets and missed their targets by a few miles. It was not a total loss because most of the bombs hit roadways and some other areas to help out the paratroopers. Paratroops also had problems hitting their targets because of heavy clouds. Some of the Paratroopers missed their targets by thirty-five miles. Of the 11,770 paratroopers involved 5,436 were killed wounded or went missing. Some of the men were shot even before they had a chance to hit the ground and have a fighting chance at surviving. Despite of this, these brave soldiers were the first troops to gain control of enemy areas on D-Day. More than 4,000 paratroopers were in France by 1 AM of June 6th. Some of the airborne transporters used on the horrible day were the C-47, CG-13A, and the bomber the B-17. The C-47 was an unarmed transport, nicknamed the "Sky train". It was originate!

nd Chief. Field Marshal Rundstedt who had not lost a campaign during the war, and directed the blitzkrieg that crushed France, Holland, and Belgium. He was given the task to protect the coast from the German boarder in the north all the way to the Italian frontier, which was about 3,000 miles. To do this heavy defenses were placed along the coastline, and sixty divisions of soldiers of poor health and Soviet prisoners of war (who were glade to fight against Marshal Stalin but did not care about fighting the Americans or British armies). These defenses started strengthening the "Atlantic Wall" as soon as 1942. Which was a line of fortifications, which the German army was believed to be invulnerable behind. Some of the obstacles were miles and miles of barbed wire, mines, Belgian Gates, teller mines, ramps, hedgehogs, pillboxes, and concrete bunkers. Mines were placed in the water and on land. On land mines and barbed wire were crisscrossed along the beaches and paths leading off the beaches. Belgian gates were 10 foot-high steel framed structures set parallel to the beach, with antitank mines attached to the top. Teller mines were on posts angled seaward, covered at high tide and placed 200 yards from the shore. Ramps were mine-tipped logs driven into the sand facing the shore. Hedgehogs were 6 foot high obstacles constructed of steel rails with mine-tipped ends, out together to rip out the bottom of landing crafts at high tide, Pill boxes were on the sea wall, these concrete bunkers shielded machine gun nests and antitank guns. Concrete bunkers were steel reinforced concrete areas that protected 75- and 88-millimeter guns. Controlling all these weapons were 60 infantry divisions 10 tank divisions and one Panzer tank division

d as a civilian airliner, but was used to carry twenty-eight paratroopers and a crew of two over 1,500 miles. The CG-13A was an unarmed gl

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