D-Day Facts – Unknown Facts about D-Day

Normandy Invasion Facts

On April, 1943, Lt-General Sir Frederick Morgan the chief staff of Allied forces was informed to prepare a full length assault against Europe.

On December 7th 1943, U.S. General Dwight Eisenhover informed to President Roosevelt about commanding an Invasion on Axis Forces.

U.S General Dwight Eisenhover was put in charge for S.H.A.E.F (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) and started work on Normandy landings.

All the information regarding the invasion on D-Day is marked as BIGOT. It is a classification that is more secret than Top Secret.

17,000,000 example strategic maps were drawn during the preparation and execution of the D-Day.

During D-Day, the Chief Commander of West Germany was Field Marshall Gerd Von Rundstedt who is responsible for attacking all the Allied soldiers in the West Germany.

During the D-Day invasion, the German Army in the west had 850,000 soldiers with Gerd Von Rundstedt as the Chief Commander in charge.

During the D-Day landings, the Atlantic wall was the coastal defenses for the Allied Force that was stretching from Norway to border of French-Spanish.

The German officer Ermin Rommel took charge of the Atlantic wall in 1944.

During the D-Day the Germans almost laid six million mines around the Atlantic Wall.