What was the purpose of D-day?

Question

what i mean by that is, i know D-day was the beginning of a battle, but what were we hoping to accomplish from that certain event?

so i see that it was mostly still against the Nazis right?

but what i dont get is that D-Day was on June 6, 1944


But in May 7 of that year, Germany had surrendered



this is what i mean by, what is the purpose of D-day

wait, ignore that previous addittion, D-day was in '44, Surrender was in '45.

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Answer 1

Liberate France
Easier to invade Germany through France than through Italy.
Russia wanted us to create another front.

Answer 2

D-Day was the beginning of the British and Allied invasion of Western Europe during the Second World War and marked the beginning of the campaign for victory in Europe.

In 1944, the course of the Second World War was turning in favour of the Allies. Now it was decided to make a decisive thrust for victory. The planned invasion, the largest invasion in history, consisted of 1,200 fighting ships, 10,000 planes, 4,126 landing craft, 804 transport ships, and hundreds of amphibious and other special purpose tanks. An amphibious landing in Northern France would be followed by a sweep eastwards towards the German capital.

The invasion did not run entirely on schedule. The attack had to be postponed for 24 hour due to stormy conditions. After the weather had settled, the Allies landed successfully in Normandy and the combined forces of the R.A.F. and American Air Force knocked out key enemy installations. But due to paralysing congestion on the beaches and robust resistance by the Panzar divisions, the Allies failed to take the town of Caen as anticipated. A month of heavy fighting followed before Caen was secured and the Allies were able to press on to Berlin and eventually secure victory.

The term D-Day was military parlance for the day on which a combined attack was to take place when the date had not yet been determined or when secrecy was essential. June 6th became immortalised as D-day and successive operations could not be given that term. The invasion of Okinawa began on L-Day and the proposed invasion of Japan would have begun on X-Day had the Japanese not previously surrendered.

Answer 3

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The purpose of D-Day was to liberate Europe and defeat Nazi Germany. In June 1944, all of Western Europe was under Nazi occupation. The only way the Allies could get on the continent was to ship thousands of soldiers across the English Channel and invade the French coast. The end result of D-Day was that Europe was liberated and Germany surrendered.

Answer 4

It was for the Allies to land onto Continental Europe to push the Germans back into Germany.

This offensive was necessary since the war on the Westenr were at that time confined to commando raids on German held Europe and day/night air raids.

Allied forces were massed in Great Britain as the staging point and D Day had to be effected to relieve pressure for the Soviets on the Eastern front.

Answer 5

The D-day invasion on June 6, 1944, also known as Operation Overlord, was meant to be the begging attack in the reclaiming of the European continent from Nazi Germany. Normandy, France was the invasion point. What was to be accomplished was to get a foothold on the continent and use that as a staging point for operations to liberate France itself. From there, to move east all the way to Berlin in an attempt, which suceeded of course, to topple Hitlers thousand year reich, and to end the second world war.

Answer 6

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What was the purpose of D-day?
what i mean by that is, i know D-day was the beginning of a battle, but what were we hoping to accomplish from that certain event?

Answer 7

To throw off the German front and shorten the war. Germany was expecting an attack from the Allied side, however, they thought it was coming from the East.

Answer 8

This was the big invasion of Europe, to gain a foothold.

Answer 9

the allies hoped to flank the germans and push them east and north into the soviet army . ultimately , taking berlin and ending nazi germany

Answer 10

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