The second head was a British airman, the Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, who had extensive experience in the development of the cooperation of ground forces and air and simultaneously assumed responsibility for directing air support the operation. At the head stands at General Dwight Eisenhower, whose main role was exercised administrator of a coalition of mainly British and Americans, but also Canadian, Polish, French, Dutch, Belgian and Norwegian. The heads of government of both nations met as heads of staff and delegates in each of their heads supreme control of the land forces, naval and air their respective theaters of operations, regardless of the nationality of each. The landing occurred on a stretch of the Normandy coast, located between the estuary of the Seine and the Cotentin Peninsula, divided into five sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword.Īt the Arcadia Conference, held in Washington in December 1941, the United Kingdom and the United States established a joint command structure should be maintained until the end of the war.
195 700 people of various Merchant Navy and Marines participated. The operation was the largest amphibious invasion made in a single day of all time, with more than 130,000 troops landed on June 6, 1944. They also carry out several actions against Kriegsmarine diversion to avoid the intrusion of the landing areas. Required the transport of soldiers and material from the UK by aircraft and transport ships, landing craft, air support, naval protection Channel and naval artillery support. The assault was conducted in two phases: an aerial assault of paratroops British, American and Canadian shortly after midnight and an amphibious landing of infantry and armored troops on the coast of France beginning at 06:30. The D-Day operation, postponed 24 hours by rain, became the 6th of June 1944, and the H-Hour was 6:30 AM. The Normandy Landings were the first operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, also known as Operation Neptune and Operation Overlord during World War II. 1.4 Coordination with the French Resistance.
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