After the German Army invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin began pressing his new allies for the creation of a second front in western Europe. In late … 詳細

The invasion planners determined a set of conditions involving the phase of the moon, the tides, and the time of day that would be satisfactory on … 詳細

Alarmed by the raids on St Nazaire and Dieppe in 1942, Hitler had ordered the construction of fortifications all along the Atlantic coast, from … 詳細

Operation Overlord was the name assigned to the establishment of a large-scale lodgement on the continent. The first phase, the amphibious … 詳細

Under the overall umbrella of Operation Bodyguard, the Allies conducted several subsidiary operations designed to mislead the Germans as to the … 詳細

Germany had at its disposal fifty divisions in France and the Low Countries, with another eighteen stationed in Denmark and Norway. Fifteen … 詳細

Rommel believed that Germany's best chance was to stop the invasion at the shore. He requested that the mobile reserves, especially tanks, be stationed as close to the coast as … 詳細