SHAEF
Coalition headquarters as a political machine.
SHAEF coalition: US, British, Canadian ground; Allied navies and air forces; French SAS and later the 2e DB in the Paris story.
German static divisions, 21st Panzer, and later SS panzer -- a mixed, late-arriving counterforce.
Systems
Five beach forces
US/UK/CA as colour-coded armies.
Allied navies
Neptune's crossing.
Allied air
Prerequisite superiority.
German Army Group B
The defender, late and split.
French Resistance / FFI
A force in the rear and in Paris.
Meters
Anglophone memory
98
Coalition complexity
88
Amphibious engineering
90
Campaign duration
35
Civilian harm (Normandy)
70
Global scale vs Bagration
50
Hotspots
Omaha
The US icon beach.
Juno
The Canadian beach -- teach it.
Pegasus / Orne
British airborne flank.
Caen
The delayed city.
Falaise
The pocket of August.
Materials
Landing craft
The industrial object of Neptune -- named, not designed here.
Mulberry concrete
A harbour towed.
Hedgerow earth
Bocage as a material.
Fuel (PLUTO)
A pipeline under the ocean as a story, not a schematic to copy.
Historical Overlord forces, not a modern landing manual.
Mulberries and Gooseberries are engineering history.