Kosovo - NHHC
1999年6月3日 · During Operation Allied Force, NATO forces contributed 1,055 aircraft and conducted 38,000 sorties, of which 10,484 were strike missions. The United States played the leading role throughout the operation, providing roughly 70 percent of all aircraft used and completing nearly 80 percent of all sorties.[ 24 ]
Sicilian Campaign: Operation Husky - NHHC
2019年5月31日 · Overview The Allied decision to invade Sicily following the foreseeable defeat of Axis forces in North Africa was an outcome of the 14–24 January 1943 Casablanca Conference. The Americans and British were initially at odds regarding the strategic value of the operation, but the British were able to argue successfully that an amphibious assault on the island would divert and disperse Axis ...
Operation Overlord: Invasion of Normandy - NHHC
“D-Day” message to Allied forces from General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander. Operation Neptune—from United States Naval Administration in World War II, Vol. V (1948) Destroyers at Normandy: Naval gunfire support at Omaha Beach "Naval Guns at Normandy," reminiscences of Vice Admiral Morton L. Deyo, USN (Ret.) (c. 1956)
Chapter 1: THE STRATEGIC BACKGROUND OF OVERLORD - NHHC
2015年3月12日 · 1 A. Definition of Operation OVERLORD 1. Operation OVERLORD may be described as the planning, preparation and execution of the 1944 invasion of Europe via Northwestern France, together with the subsequent allied military advance into the heart of Germany and the destruction of the German armed forces.1 Operation NEPTUNE was the cross channel assault phase of OVERLORD.2 2. OVERLORD was the ...
Japan's Surrender and Aftermath - NHHC
If Allied forces did, in fact, invade the Home Islands and the initial assault could be repulsed or made too costly for Western governments to bear, Japan would still be able to retain its honor. This view led to the formulation of a master defense plan (Ketsu-Go—“Decisive” Operation), which was completed in early April. Due to Japan’s ...
Operation Torch: Invasion of North Africa - NHHC
The Allied invasion of French North Africa in November 1942 was intended to draw Axis forces away from the Eastern Front, thus relieving pressure on the hard-pressed Soviet Union. The operation was a compromise between U.S. and British planners as the latter felt that the American-advocated landing in northern Europe was premature and would lead to disaster at this stage of the war. The ...
Operation Overlord (D-Day): June 1944 - NHHC
Invasion of Normandy, France (Codename: Operation Overlord) On June 6, 1944, in Operation Overlord, the Allied forces landed troops on Normandy beaches for the largest amphibious assault in history, beginning the march eastward to defeat Germany. In a larger strategic sense, the successful Allied landing in France was a psychological blow to the German occupation of Europe. It called into ...
Operation Plunder: Crossing the Rhine - NHHC
The deployment of the LCVPs and LCMs facilitated the massing of Allied forces on the Rhine’s eastern bank and enabled the rapid exploitation of the established bridgeheads. With their contribution to Operation Plunder—overcoming the final obstacle barring the way—into Germany from the West, the Navy played a significant role in ending the ...
Chapter 3: THE STRATEGIC BACKGROUND OF OVERLORD - NHHC
2015年3月12日 · His only function was to exercise operational command, under the Supreme Commander, of the British, U.S., and Allied Naval Forces, assigned to the NEPTUNE, or assault phase, of the OVERLORD operations. _____ 1 See Admiralty letters MO 53171/43 of 12 October 1943, and MO 53171/43 of 4 November 1943.
The Invasion of Normandy - NHHC
The invasion of Normandy in June 1944 was the culmination of three years of planning and preparation gathering by Allied forces in Britain. Landing in the face of determined German resistance, units of the British Commonwealth and U.S. armies established a beachhead, defeated German counter-attacks, and eventually broke out into a fast-moving campaign in France. By September 1944, Allied ...