Deceive the obvious port
Fortitude.
Neptune was a day; Overlord was a campaign. Teaching only the first hour of Omaha mis-teaches both.
Cobra and Falaise are the operational payoff.
Principles
Win the air first
A 1944 prerequisite.
Build-up is the battle after the beach
June-July race.
Liberation has a civilian bill
Caen.
Memory can outgrow proportion
D-Day vs Bagration.
Steps
- Decide the second front
1943 conferences.
A political date as much as a military one.
- Assemble in Britain
1944 spring.
An island as a camp.
- Cross
6 June.
A tide and a coalition.
- Link and hold
June.
The lodgement.
- Break the bocage
Cobra.
Hedgerows end.
- Pocket and pursue
Falaise to the Seine.
A campaign becomes a chase.
Diagrams
A simple labelled coast.
Calais threat vs Norman fact.
Limits
D-Day vs campaign counts
Do not mix them.
Film Omaha-centrism
Correct with Juno and Sword.
No landing how-to
History only.
Tide tables and beach obstacles are described as 1944 facts, not as a landing how-to.
Bocage fighting was a learning process paid in infantry.