The D-Day Assault

The D-Day Assault On the side of D-Day being significant, my own knowledge comes into

play. I know full well that a lot of planning and preparation went

into the D-Day assault.

To begin with: The deceptions at Dover, where the allies put in fake

airfields and landing craft and made a complete mock army in the

surrounding areas tricked the German reconnaissance aircraft into

thinking that an invasion force was being assembled for an attack at

Calais. This belief was made stronger by the radio traffic that the

Germans picked up from Dover, the transmissions were announcing the

deployment of troops to this area in preparation of an invasion of

Calais. But this was all a deception, the real invasion was to come to

the beaches of Normandy. But Hitler has fallen for it and he had even

ordered that no troops were to be moved from defending Calais, even if

another invasion landed at Normandy or anywhere else on the French

coast, without the explicit orders of Hitler himself. Hitler thinking

that it would be a deception for the real invasion at Calais.

I also know that D-Day hinged on many crucial small objectives within

the opening hours of D-Day. The capture of Pegasus bridge to hold back

the German armour that would have spelt disaster for the whole

invasion was executed without fail, the soldiers also set up an

'Alamo' just in case the Germans broke through the defence of their

newly captured bridge, the Alamo being if the Germans broke ...

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after row and occasionally buried together.

I believe that if the Russians did not come into the war than the

outcome could have been much different, and if Stalin did not do his 3

5 year plans to modernise and equip Russia for war, then once again it

could have been very different. I say this because Germany lost a lot

of morale and many thousands of soldiers. This also spread evenly the

opposition the allies faced to defeat Germany from all sides, from the

60 divisions that were in North France to the 120 that fought the

Russians. Who knows, the war hinged on so many factors and it is our

role as historians to find the truth working through bias, but there's

one thing I know for sure and that's the fact that many people died

and that its also our role as historians to make sure that's never

forgotten.