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To develop a large-scale land offensive campaign Create favorable conditions for the German army to suffer an unprecedented defeat on the eastern front, and place a glimmer of hope on the western front

The landing of the American and British forces on the Western Front may force the German army to collapse, but it may also be an excellent opportunity to turn the German army into victory.

It is possible to transfer 50 divisions from the western front to the eastern front to fight the Soviet attack. According to this, the German army attempts to quickly concentrate on the condition that the enemy has absolute air and sea control - all possible forces and weapons should be used in the main direction where the enemy may land

Immediately launch a decisive counterattack, annihilating the enemy on the waterfront beach in one fell swoop. The entire landing campaign experienced three stages: assault landing (landing), consolidation and expansion of the landing field, and in-depth operations.

The first echelon of the coalition landing force completed preparations for boarding. At dawn on the 3rd, the assault and delivery groups set sail from each port to the waters south of the Isle of Wight to meet.

The landing area moved forward on the morning of the 4th due to the deteriorating weather. The Supreme Campaign Commander announced that the landing date of the assault was postponed from the original date of the 5th by 24 hours and recalled the fleet that had already gone to sea. Tactical suddenness and impact on army morale

The assault fleets again concentrated in the waters on the south side of the Isle of Wight. At 12:00 noon, they began to advance to the predetermined target area. The minesweeping fleet sailed before the assault fleet

First, a unified landing field was established in Sandcastle, Kern, Bayeux, Quinavill and other regions, and then developed in depth, taking Cherbourg and Brittany halfway to the seaport, and on the east side of Kern

The task of the operation is: 96 kilometers from the mouth of the Ona River to Quineville on the peninsula of Constantine

In addition, 17 divisions of the G Army Group are distributed in the southern and southwestern regions of France. There are more than 300 ships of various types and more than 60 auxiliary ships on the Western Front of the Navy. The Third Army of the Air Force

In addition, there are more than 2,000 merchant ships, the Air Force, the U.S. Eighth and Ninth Army, the British Second Army, a total of 12,837 aircraft of various types, and the German troops participating in the war

The US 1st, British 2nd, and Canada 1st Army Groups, and the US 3rd Army Group after the landing, and the US 1st Army Corps co-edited into the 2nd Army Group with a total of 39 divisions, 10 armored brigades, and 10 commandos ( Marine Corps) The Navy is directly guarded by the Eastern and Western

The specific organization of the landing campaign Therefore, the actual organization preparation time for the landing campaign is about a month

However, apart from the plan of forming a joint staff for the campaign, the US-British coalition never took active action in the preparation of the campaign. At the beginning of 1944, the German army began to rout on the Eastern Front and the Soviet army's counter-offensive spearheaded Berlin

It was badly hit, so the whole world war situation opened up a second on the western front to the US-British allied forces

The decisive victory has been achieved in the battle, and the counter-offensive has begun; Rihui has been defeated in the Pacific theater.

The second battlefield is of decisive significance. In January 1943, the highest level military conference, decided to carry out the landing campaign in northern France

Decisive significance. In January 1943, the highest military meeting of the British Casablanca decided to implement the victory of the landing campaign in northern France

The landing field was established on July 24. On July 25, the land-based offensive began. On August 25, the invasion of Paris and the victory of the Normandy landing along the Seine

The masterpiece Normandy D-Day was a large-scale landing of the German army by the United States and Britain on the Normandy Peninsula in northwestern France at the end of World War II