Can anyone describe the D-day invasion plans, thanks!?

Answer 1

Assault and overrun five key beaches, selected for their physical attributes. Utah, and Omaha were given to the US. Sword and Gold were given to the British. And Juno was given to the Canadians.

At the same time, three airborne divisions (2 American, 1 British), which inserted behind the beaches overnight, would seize vital causeways over marshes, bridges that German reinforcements would have to cross and vital crossroad towns.

Air superiority would have to be achieved, of course. To this end, the largest concentration of airpower was gathered in England and unleashed several weeks in advance and were careful not to strike any concentrations of targets to keep the Germans guessing where the invasion would land.

Then reinforce the successful assaults and slowly gain a foothold on the continent.

Answer 2

The plan was to assault the German defences in Normandy while fooling the Germans into thinking that the assault would be in the Pas de Calais which had the shortest sea crossing.
This plan succeded and the Germans lost valuable days in moving their forces to Normandy , which they thought was just a feint while they waited for the main assault in the Pas de Calais.
On June 6 1944 the first troops to land were British glider troops who captured avital bridge and wiped out a coastal battery.
They were followed just before dawn by paratroops to secure the flanks of the invasion area, the British on the east and the Americans on the west.
At dawn the main force assaulted the beaches.
The British and Canadians had the eastern beaches codenamed Sword , Juno, Gold while the Americans had the western beaches Omaha and Utah.
Once sufficient territory had been captured to allow for reinforcements to be landed, the plan was that the British would soak up the best of the German armor on the eastern wing until the enemy was exhausted, the Americans would capture the Cotentin peninsula to guard their backs and then breakout into Brittany against a weakened german force, then swing left behind the germans while the British drove forward.
This plan worked and most of the remaining german forces in Normandy were decimated as they tried to escape through the Falaise Gap.

Answer 3

This needs a long essay! I will assume you know the nuts and bolts, and others have provided this (names of beaches, nations involved etc).
The basic plan was to invade over the beaches of Normandy. The significance of this was that Hitler felt the Allies would have to capture a sea port to keep their troops supplied, which is why he was deceived by the deception plan which centred on creating the image of an invasion coming through Calais. This plan was based on fake units (which the Germans thought were still in existence months later- event though these 'armies' were built on paperwork and false radio transmissions),

To avoid the port problem the British built 'Mulberry' artificial harbours: a big dock floated over the English Channel. The basic Allied plan was to move inland quickly, and build up forces for an advance on a wide front.

The Germans held the Allies close to the beaches for two months, preventing this build up due to a lack of space in the bridgehead area. The British attacked the Germans repeatedly, taking many casualties but forcing the Germans to deploy approximately 80% of their armour against the British. Then, the Americans attacked and were successful in penetrating the German line.

Thus, after many weeks of bitter fighting just inland of the beaches, the German army in the area was defeated and encircled: the Allied armies then advanced very rapidly to the borders of Germany, at which point they outran their supply lines.

Answer 4

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower,
During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. In 1951, he became the first he became the first supreme commander of NATO.[1]

Answer 5

The invasion of northern France from England was launched not in May, as its planners had initially prescribed, but on June 6, the famous "D-Day" of World War II. A huge armada had been assembled, including 1,200 fighting ships, 10,000 planes, 4,126 landing craft, 804 transport ships, and hundreds of amphibious and other special purpose tanks. During the operation 156,000 troops (73,000 U.S. and 83,000 British or Canadian) were landed in Normandy, 132,500 of them seaborne across the English Channel, 23,500 airborne. The beaches chosen for the landings stretched from the estuary of the Orne to the southeastern edge of the Cotentin peninsula, with the British and Canadians taking the eastern beaches and the Americans the western. The ground forces for the initial assault, under British Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery's direction, comprised: (1) the Canadian 1st Army under Lieut. Gen. H.D.G. Crerar, the British 2nd Army under Lieut. Gen. Sir Miles Dempsey, and the British 6th Airborne division; and (2) the U.S. 1st Army and the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions under Lieut. Gen. Omar N. Bradley.

Delayed 24 hours by bad Channel weather, the invasion began before dawn on June 6 with units of the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions making night landings near the town of Sainte-Mère-Église, while British commando units captured key bridges and knocked out Nazi communications. In the morning, the assault troops of the combined Allied armies landed at five beaches along the Normandy coast code-named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. While four beaches were taken easily and quickly, the forces landing at "Bloody Omaha" encountered stiff German resistance. By nightfall, sizable beachheads had been secured on all five landing areas, and the final campaign to defeat Germany was under way.

The Allies' supremacy in the air was pivotal. Their air forces destroyed most of the bridges over the Seine to the east and the Loire to the south, thus preventing the Germans from quickly reinforcing their beleaguered forward units at the beachheads.

In the original plan, the British forces were to take Caen on the first day of the landing. The coastal defenses were overcome by 9 AM, but the advance inland to Caen did not start until afternoon, partly because of a paralyzing traffic jam on the beaches and partly because of the excessive caution of the commanders on the spot. When they eventually pushed on toward Caen, a Panzer (tank) division--the only one in the invasion area--arrived and checked their progress. A second Panzer division came up the next day. More than a month of heavy fighting passed before Caen was at last secured and cleared on July 9. In the western sector, meanwhile, the Americans faced serious resistance in the Cotentin but finally took the crucial port of Cherbourg on June 27.

The Germans' main handicap was their need to cover 3,000 miles (4,800 km) of western European coastline, from The Netherlands around the coast of France to the Italian mountain frontier. Their 59 divisions in Western Europe were of a static type and were anchored to sectors of that long coastline. But the other half were field divisions, and of these the ten Panzer divisions were highly mobile. Thus the Germans had the capability of concentrating overwhelming superiority to throw the invaders back into the sea before they became established. However, any such strong and prompt counterstroke was frustrated by discord in the German high command, both about the probable site of the invasion and about the best method of meeting it. Before the event, Hitler's intuition proved better than his generals' calculation in gauging where the Allies would land. After the landing, his continual interference and rigid control deprived his generals of the chance of retrieving the situation and eventually enabled the Allied forces to break out of their initially confined position and begin their rapid sweep across France.

Answer 6

It would take pages to answer this question.
But basically it was to bomb and shell the coastal defences and get as many men and machines ashore in the fastest possible time.