27.6 The D-Day Landings

Question 1

What was Operation Overlord?

Answer 1

The landing of over 150,000 US, British and Canadian troops in Normandy, France.
However, they fed false plans to Germans that they would land further east at Calais.

Question 2

Why did Churchill and Roosevelt carry out operation overlord?

Answer 2

Stalin needed to ease pressure on the red army by attacking from the west.

Question 3

What were the five beaches codenames?

Answer 3

Utah,
Omaha,
Juno,
Gold,
Sword
S.O.J.U.G.

Question 4

When was D-day (Deliverance day) and who commanded it?

Answer 4

-6th June 1944
-General Eisenhower

Question 5

How many troops ships and planes landed/ were brought?

Answer 5

-150, 000 (around) troups
-1,700 ships
- 10,000 planes

Question 6

What three things did they do to help with the landing?

Answer 6

-Broke down German defences on the beach
-Built artificial harbours to bring tanks and trucks(mulberry piers)
-Established a pipeline (PLUTO),

Question 7

What did Allies do to Germany?

Answer 7

Bombed day and night, large german cities such as Hamburg, Dresden and Berlin, and Ruhr valley’s industrial centre to damage war production.

Question 8

What and when was Operation Bagration?

Answer 8

June - August 1944
-Red army’s offensive to drive Germans from the USSR.

Question 9

What was Germany’s final offensive?

Answer 9

Battle of the Bulge

Question 10

When and what was Battle of the Bulge? Dod it succeed?

Answer 10

-December 1944, a repeat of the 1940 attack through the Ardennes
-No they were exhausted and defeated by January 1945