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The Western Front

The Western Front. ‘D-Day’. Under Eisenhower’s direction, the Allies gathered a force of nearly 3 million British, American, and Canadian troops Army is stocked with a massive amount of military supplies Allies prepare for a massive invasion of Normandy. Eisenhower’s Trickery.

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The Western Front

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  1. The Western Front

  2. ‘D-Day’ • Under Eisenhower’s direction, the Allies gathered a force of nearly 3 million British, American, and Canadian troops • Army is stocked with a massive amount of military supplies • Allies prepare for a massive invasion of Normandy

  3. Eisenhower’s Trickery • Sets up a ‘Phantom Army’ • Sends radio message to ‘Army’ in codes he knew the Germans could read • Orders ‘Army’ to attack Calais (strongest section of Hitler’s ‘Atlantic Wall’) • Hitler orders his generals to keep a large army at Calais

  4. ‘D-Day’ • Why would it make sense for the Allies to invade at Calais?

  5. D-Day • June 6, 1944: Allied forces invade German-occupied France • Largest land-sea-air operation in army history

  6. D-Day • Despite Eisenhower’s trickery, the German response was brutal, particularly at Omaha Beach

  7. D-Day • After seven days of fighting, the Allies held an 80-mile strip of France • Within a month they had landed a million troops, 560,000 tons of supplies, and 170,000 vehicles in France

  8. American Cemetery in Normandy

  9. After D-Day • By September 1944, the Allies had freed France, Belgium and Luxembourg • ‘Dear Ike: today I spat in the Seine.’ – General George S. Patton

  10. The Battle of the Bulge • A last-ditch German offensive in the Ardennes Forest

  11. The Battle of the Bulge • Allied frontline ‘bulged inward’ (according to an early report of the war map) • Germans sustained massive losses (120,000 troops)

  12. Unconditional Surrender - April 25, 1945: Soviet Army storms Berlin • May 8, 1945: The Allies celebrate V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) • Roosevelt dies (April 12, 1945). • V.P. Harry Truman becomes next president

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