THE ASSOCIATION OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE REGIMENT

2002

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We would like to thank Ted Stevens for his contribution to the site, providing us with regular snippets from his monthly newsletter . Keeping the readers of his French Letter informed on events in NORMANDY. Thanks TED.

NORMANDY
CONNECTION

By
Steve (TED) Stevens

NORMANDY 1944:
D-Day 1944

Normandy Campaign, allied invasion of Europe (June-August 1944) in World War II, code-named "Operation Overlord". The Allied counter-offensive was launched on June 6, 1944. British, Canadian, and United States troops stormed their respective invasion beaches, and most were quickly overrun, except the Americans at Omaha Beach, who encountered stiff German resistance. As a result of successful British deception measures, many German Panzer tank divisions had been kept in reserve in the Pas de Calais, where the Germans anticipated the main Allied landing would take place. Furthermore, the Allies had achieved air supremacy and their bombing of roads and railways in northern France imposed serious delays on the movement of German reinforcements to the Allied bridgeheads.