Normandy landing

Normandy Landing

At the beginning of 1944, the situation of the entire war was very favorable to the World Anti-Fascist Alliance. Britain and the United States began to cross the English Channel and land on the European continent to fight fascist Germany. .

The British and American Allied forces chose the Normandy Peninsula as the location for the landing operations because the terrain here was open and the German defense was very weak.

Subsequently, the Allied forces nervously began preparations for the landing and used deception tactics against Germany. The German army received a large amount of intelligence, but it was impossible to tell which ones were true.

Finally, the Germans, including Hitler, believed that the British and American Allied forces would land not in Normandy, but in Calais, France; in addition, they also confidently believed that the Allied forces would land before June 5 It was impossible to launch an attack because the weather was very bad at this time.

Sure enough, the weather in the English Channel has been very bad, so German officers have withdrawn from the front lines and relaxed their vigilance.

Unexpectedly, on June 6, the wind and waves in the English Channel suddenly calmed down a lot. The British and American Allied forces seized these rare hours and quickly launched a landing war.

The Allies first transported a large number of soldiers to the European continent by plane, allowing them to control the areas they had to pass for landing.

Then, the Allies used aircraft bombing as cover, and at the same time used fleets to continuously send soldiers to Normandy.

At first, the German army did not organize effective resistance. When Hitler realized something was wrong, the British and American Allied Forces had already occupied five huge beaches.

Hitler was anxious and hurriedly sent Rommel to launch a strong counterattack. But at this time, the Allies had gained a firm foothold. Under the attack of the opponent's powerful air force, the German army could not stop the Allies' advance.

As of July 18, the Allies paid a huge price of more than 200,000 casualties, wounded, killed, and captured nearly 500,000 German troops, and finally succeeded in landing. After this war, Germany was forced to fight on two fronts again, caught in the iron pincers of the Soviet Union and the American and British Allied Forces from the east and west.