OUTCOME
D-day
Invasion ended in June 30th and resulted in the Allied forces
gaining most of the beaches along the Normandy coast, as well as the freedom of
Western Europe from the Nazi Régime. Not only that but it was also the end of
Hitler and now more
than 60 years later, the Normandy Invasion, or D-Day, remains the largest
seaborne invasion in history. At first people discussed and wondered if the Allies
would accomplish what they were aiming for, but their plan wasn’t for them to
move on as fast as they could, in fact it was to move slowly but surely and
that’s how they won and gained such a big victory. The Allies did accomplish to
push the Germans out of France and continued to invade Germany itself. There
were many casualties on both sides, the Allied Forces suffered over 10,000 causalities,
more than 4,000 deaths.
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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. The occupation of Normandy was crucial for the Western Allies to
bring the war to the western border of Germany. If the Normandy invasion had
not occurred, there could conceivably have been a complete possession of
northern and western Europe by Soviet forces.
The United States had in all 19 Army Divisions in the Normandy Campaign:
The United States had in all 19 Army Divisions in the Normandy Campaign:
- 1st Infantry Division
- 2nd Infantry Division
- 4th Infantry Division
- 5th Infantry Division
- 8th Infantry Division
- 9th Infantry Division
- 28th Infantry Division
- 29th Infantry Division
- 30th Infantry Division
- 35th Infantry Division
- 79th Infantry Division
- 83rd Infantry Division
- 90th Infantry Division
- 2nd Armored Division
- 3rd Armored Division
- 4th Armored Division
- 6th Armored Division
- 82nd Airborne Division