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Why Did D-Day Attack Normandy

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Storming the beaches of normandy The men run out of the water on to the sand gunshots and bombs everywhere 9,000 of them won 't make it. It is june 6 1944,d-day. WW2 is going on. Japan recently bombed Pearl Harbor and it is time for America to fight back. America gathered with allies and they decided to attack Normandy beach.So this brings us to, why did D-day insure an alied victory.before D-day hapened japan bomed pearl harbor and Germany is takin almoast all of Euope and Aferica. But Germany made the mistake of turning on the Soviets so they are fighting the Soviets on the east and know that America will attack from the west. Adolf Hitler is commanding germany and is gathering all the jews and all other parties that he doesn 't like and puts them into camps and kills …show more content…

They had to put together the biggest military force in history ever,on land ,in air,and by ship. Also all the countries had to practice fighting on the beach. They would practice racing out of the boat and crawling under barbed wire.The factories had to start making many more gun for the war.people who don 't speak the same language had to fight together so confusion could be a problem but that could not happen perfection was key and if word got out to germany then they could focus all their troops to that spot and hold us.They also had to postpone the tack 2 days because of bad weather. This attack was the most important part of the war because if we couldn 't get a foothold on the land and we couldn 't have a base on land there.We had dummy tanks go somewhere else so they would go there then we could attack while most of their troops were gone.The war took lots of supplies and soldiers but it was a great victory but with all victories there is a defeet.9,000 soldiers died on the attack. America and allies took over several beaches not just Normandy.once we got on land we built a command center and then started marching east towards the end of the

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