Planning
COSSAC to SHAEF; Fortitude; shipping maths.
The second-front argument ran from 1942. Overlord is the 1944 answer, not the first idea.
Dieppe (1942) is the bloody rehearsal English Canadians still teach beside the successful day.
Timeline
- Quebec / Overlord confirmed
Cross-Channel attack set as the main 1944 effort.
- Build-up in Britain
The south of England as a packed camp.
- 24-hour delay
Weather; Eisenhower's go for the 6th.
- D-Day
Airborne, then five beaches.
- Mulberries and build-up
The race to land more than the Germans can move.
- Beaches linked
A continuous lodgement.
- Goodwood / Caen
British-Canadian costly pushes; city finally taken in ruins.
- Cobra
US breakout from Saint-Lo country.
- Falaise
Pocket; German flight; liberation race.
- Paris
Liberation; the campaign's political curtain.
Eras
The day
Five beaches and the airborne flanks.
Bocage
Hedgerows, Caen, Cherbourg.
Breakout
Cobra, Falaise, the Seine.
Memory
Cemeteries, films, anniversaries.
Milestones
Coalition amphibious success
A political-military fact of 6 June.
Western Front opened
The second front Stalin had demanded.
Memory industry
The densest English-language battlefield tourism in this atlas.
Paris in August is a political end of the Norman campaign, not of the war.
Bagration, launched 22 June, belongs in the same summer paragraph.