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Omaha Beach was the second location where the U.S landed in France in June. This coast was home to Vierville-sur-Mer in the west, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer in the center and the villages of Colleville-sur-Mer and Le-Grand-Hameau in the east.
The night before the landing on the beach, bombers would drop hundreds of bombs on the sandy shore of the German defenses.
The first wave was dramatically the worst for causalities, but in total there was 2,400 casualties for the U.S, but 34,000 Allied troops landed by nightfall.

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Camilles house

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June 6th, 1944: Allied armies led a massive invasion on the beaches of Normandy. The assault involved millions of troops and ultimately led to the liberation of France; then furthermore the end to the war.
This would be the beginning of the U.S pushing a more land offense against the Germans.
425,000 Allied and German troops were killed. 210,000 Allied casualties, with nearly 37,000 killed amongst the ground forces and a further 16,000 deaths amongst the Allied air forces.
Operation Overlord was just the invasion of France and was an operation that was suppose to bring about the end of the war.

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- Allied troops fighting the Northern France Campaign combined with those fighting the Southern France Campaign
- Allie General Dwight D. continue to make advancements to allow the Germans no respite
-  In September the Allies launched airborne attacks to seize a sixty-four mile string of bridges through the Netherlands and across the Rhine
- German counterattacks overwhelmed paratroopers
- The Americans beat back German counterattacks against the bridgehead, and then expanded it

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- The Allies were under heavy pressure from the Soviet Union to draw off German forces from the East by opening a “Second Front"
- The Allies prepared to seize one port in an operation to test German reaction and defense
- Commandoes got ashore and neutralized flanking artillery batteries, but the element of surprise was compromised when they hit the shore
- The Allies did not achieve air supremacy after the raid and lost way more troops than Germany did
- The operation was a failure and proved to ultimately be a very costly failure

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- Germany tried to break British control of the Eastern Mediterranean front by seizing Crete
- From Crete, the Germans could range to the coast of North Africa
- The Greece and British forces was consisted mostly of depleted units taken from Greece
- On May 20th, the German Air Force was assaulted with a parachute division after their own air strikes
- The British Navy intercepted and destroyed reinforcements that were coming to them by sea, while also suffering heavily from German air attacks
- The battle ended on June 1st when the Allied powers surrendered

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- This was a turning point where the U.S became a stable in the Allied Powers
- Germans expanded their U-Boat campaign into American waters that were both under prepared and unprotected
- Japanese advances threatened communications to Australia and New Zealand and virtually cut off China
- New technologies: radar, sonar and new depth charges entered the stage
- In May 1943 the the campaign began to be more in favor of the Allies
- German U-Boats dwindled in effectiveness as time went on
- American naval victories and islands seized from the enemy compressed Japanese submarine forces

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- Nazi Germany was bombing the United Kingdom
- Hitler put an emphasis on area bombing after having failed to destroy the ' Royal Air Force'. These bombings would take place at night and focus on denser cities and British ports.
- Although there was over 45,000 tons of bombs, 180,000 casualties and 23,000 fatalities between July and December British morale held.
- The last major attack against London was the night of May 10-11 , 1941.

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Battle of Leyte Gulf: October 23-26, 1944

With over 200,000 naval personel involved in the battle its considered to be not only the largest naval battle of WW2 but in all of history. This was the U.S's answer to finally invade the phillipeines after months of deliberation. The area was occupied by japan after a long island hopping campaigns completed by the U.S.