6. D-Day
• First- massive air attacks
• Second- paratroopers behind German lines
• Third- Amphibious landing
7. D-day
TWO ADVANTAGES:
1) Massive air and naval support
– Land more than 1 million troops in 2-3 weeks
2) Attack details kept secret
– Stormy weather, meteorologist predicted that
Allies would not attempt
8. D-day
• Weeks of constant fighting to get inland
• 11 month advance through France and
Belgium, towards Germany
• Exhausting, brutal, dangerous
BUT- rewarding when liberating
9. Canada Liberates Netherlands- April
1945
Canadians given the task of liberating the
Netherlands
• Dutch food and fuel supplieshad beencut-off
– Starving people eating bulbs and horse meat
– Canadian food drops
• German troops in the Netherlands were surrounded by
May 4
• 6,300 Canadians killed in liberation
10.
11. Final Days
• Allies invade Germany from west
• Soviet Union attacked from east
Germany surrendered May 7, 1945
Hitler and hispartnerEva Braun committed
suicide in Berlin bunker.