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Normandy: Normandy Invasion
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In the end, the invasion of Normandy succeeded in its objective by sheer force of numbers. By July 1944, some one million Allied troops, mostly American, British, and Canadian, were entrenched in Normandy. During the great invasion, the Allies assembled nearly three million men and stored 16 million tons of arms, munitions, and supplies in Britain.
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The Normandy invasion began with overnight parachute and glider landings, massive air attacks, naval bombardments, and an early morning amphibious phase began on June 6. The "D-Day" forces deployed from bases along the south coast of England, the most important of these being Portsmouth.[4]
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During the Second World War, the D Day landings on the Normandy beaches under the code name Operation Overlord were a massive invasion of German-occupied France by Allied troops. Caen, Cherbourg, Carentan, Falaise and other Norman towns endured many casualties in the Battle of Normandy, which continued until the closing of the so-called Falaise gap between Chambois and Montormel, then liberation of Le Havre.
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The battle began months before the invasion, when Allied bombers began to pound the Normandy coast and farther south, to destroy transportation links, and disrupt the German army's build-up of their military strength. More than 300 planes dropped 13,000 bombs over Normandy in advance of the invasion. Six parachute regiments, with more than 13,000 men... went ahead to cut railroad lines, blow up bridges, and seize landing fields. Gliders also brough in men, light artillery, jeeps, and small tanks.
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COSSAC staff considered two main invasion sites: the Pas de Calais, across the Channel at its narrowest point, and Normandy. They decided on the latter. It was less obvious and less heavily defended; the port of Cherbourg might be captured early on; and, although Normandy was further away than the Pas de Calais, it was well within range of fighters based in Britain and conveniently placed for the many ports and anchorages on the south coast. Morgan believed that it would take two weeks to capture Cherbourg, and in the meantime the Channel weather might make it difficult to land supplies: work was begun on two huge floating sectional harbours (Mulberries) which would be towed to France. Maj Gen Hobart, a pioneer of armoured warfare, had been brought back from retirement to command an armoured division composed of ‘funnies’, specialist vehicles which would help the attackers get ashore and fight their way through the beach defences. In addition to the naval plan for the invasion (NEPTUNE) and the invasion itself (OVERLORD), a comprehensive deception plan (FORTITUDE) would seek to persuade the Germans first that the Pas de Calais would be attacked and second that the invasion of Normandy was simply a diversion.
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Alfred Atheling, son of King Ethelred II, had been living in Normandy in France during the Danish invasion of Saxon England. After Canute died, around 1040, Alfred returned to England, where he was met and entertained in Guildford by the Earl Godwine. Godwine handed him to Harold Harefoot's men, who blinded and mutilated him to the extent that he died not long after.
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