DDay Success or Disaster
Twenty years after the end of the First World War a man named Adolph Hitler of Germany began a Second World War. On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland, which had a treaty with France and England to protect them. The English, French and Polish were all unprepared to fight, and as a result were beaten terribly. By the next spring France had been totally taken by the Germans. While Germany and there allies, Italy, controlled all of the western part of Europe. England, France and now America had to figure a way to take the control of Europe again. There decision was to try and storm a beach in Normandy France. It would be one of the bloodiest war battles in U.S. History. This storming of Omaha Beach would be a success because even though the allies lost a lot of men, they still were able to take the beach, which led them to take the continent. This was the beginning of the end for Hitler and his Nazis. Hitler and his partners, Japan and Italy, made many mistakes, which opened the door for the allied forces to make this operation possible. Germany's big mistake was that Hitler had assembled a massive naval fleet to try and invade England. Hitler's thinking was that if he did try t
Among other reasons was the weather; the Germans had maintained many weather stations in the Atlantic till the U-boats had been taken out. So the Germans became very uninformed f the weather patterns in the Atlantic. The allied forces on the other hand were very knowledgeable of what was going on in the weather. Due to the strict landing requirements for the invasion it had to happen on June 5, 6, or the 7th. The weather had to be good on one of those days or the attack would have to be postponed to the end of the month or even the next month. July was to late so it had to happen in June. There was a massive storm beginning June 4, which was sure to delay the invasion, but on the 5th there was a break in the weather and General Patten of the United States ordered a go on the invasion. The Germans had no idea there was a break in the weather all they knew is what they say which was awful gray and ugly skies. By them being so unknowledgeable of this it ended up being very fatal to the Germans. Africa to push the Germans, and Italians out of northern Africa. Once the allies got Africa back they needed to knock Italy out of the war. Germans where and when the attack would take place and to cripple the German forces once the invasion began. It was the most complicated deception plan of the war, if not of all time. In 1941the British broke the German Secret Service codes. These gave the British the name and identities of all the German agents, and were able to capture them. Some of these agents were executed or imprisoned, but most were used against Germany. They successively turned these agents into "double" agents. Throughout the rest of the war these "double" agents would tell the Germans misleading information. The main part of the deception plan was to make the Germans believe that the invasion would happen in the area of Pas de Calais area. This worked like a charm because as early as October 1943 the German leader of the troops in France sent a major number of troops to defend that area. So to keep the deception alive there was a false group of troops to make it look like that was where the allies were coming. The American troops stayed there until the month before the invasion. The allied forces had to make sure that the Germans continued to believe that the invasion site was still Pas de Calais. This happened because the allies caught another break the Germans had deciphered a lot of false information called ultra in the year prior to the attack. The most important reason was the development of an extensive deception plan, which was named, accordingly, Bodyguard. Bodyguard had two major objectives; to confuse the
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Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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