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June 3, 2023

Why Was Normandy Selected For D-Day?

Filed under: Britain, Cancon, France, Germany, History, Military, USA, WW2 — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Real Engineering
Published 28 Mar 2020

In the debut episode of the Logistics of D-Day we explore the logic and planning that resulted in Normandy being chosen as the location for the largest amphibious invasion in the history of human kind.

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References:
[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/D-Day-Manual…
[2] https://www.amazon.com/D-Day-Atlas-An…
[2] https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c…
[3] https://books.google.ie/books?id=5Fi1…
[4] https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/batt…
[5] https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/d-da…
[6] https://www.jstor.org/stable/215761?r…
[7] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-euro…
[8] http://www.jshawmsc.f2s.com/140squadr…
[9] http://worldwar2headquarters.com/HTML…
[10] https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/rememb…
[11] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbre…
[12] https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/cgi/view…

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