(This is a US/UK-centric web site; no apologies! In any case, for the West, this was the main effort against Germany, in keeping with a military philosophy directed against an enemy's center of gravity. To quote from the CCS directive for OVERLORD:
"You will enter the continent of Europe and ...
undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.")
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- Combined Chiefs of Staff Directive to Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force: OVERLORD
- Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force Directive to C-in-C's Ground, Air and Naval Forces: OVERLORD
General Accounts:
- Report by the Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the Operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force, 6 June 1944 to 8 May 1945
- Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe, 1933-1945, Williamson Murray
- The War in Western Europe, Part 1 (June to December, 1944) [U.S. Military Academy, West Point]
- UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II:
- The War Department:
- Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943-1944
- European Theater of Operations:
- The Technical Services:
- The Chemical Warfare Service:
- Chemicals in Combat (Various chapters)
- The Ordnance Department:
- On Beachhead and Battlefront (Chapter 14)
- The Transportation Corps:
- Operations Overseas (Chapter 6)
Preparations:
- BOLERO: The Build-Up in the United Kingdom
- Building the Navy's Bases in World War II:
Chapter 19-- Bases in the North Atlantic
- CCS Directive for Overlord
- UN Command Structure for Overlord
- NEPTUNE: Training for the Mounting and Operation, and the Artificial Ports
- Operation TIGER, Normandy Training Exercise [NHC]
NEPTUNE -- D-Day for the Navy
- The Royal Navy & Operation NEPTUNE
- HISTORY OF U.S. NAVAL OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II:
- Vol. XI: The Invasion of France and Germany, 1944-1945
- Naval Guns at Normandy, VAdm. Morton L. Deyo, USN (Ret)
- UNITED STATES NAVAL ADMINISTRATION IN WORLD WAR II
Commander, U.S. Naval Forces in Europe, Volume V:- Building the Navy's Bases in World War II:
Chapter 21-- Construction Battalions in France and Germany
- Operation Plan No. 2-44 of the Western Naval Task Force, Allied Naval Expeditionary Force
- NEPTUNE: Training for the Mounting and Operation, and the Artificial Ports
- CTF 122 Report of Naval Combat Demolition Units
- CTF 122 Report of Sunk and Damaged Ships and Craft
- Miracle Harbor -- British Information Services pamphlet describing the MULLBERRY Harbors for the Normandy invasion.
- MULBERRY "B" -- SHAEF Report on the design, construction, emplacement, and use of the artificial harbors
(Additional photos)
- Action Reports and Narratives:
- Lt. Comdr. George Hoffman narrative of loss of USS Corry (DD-463)
- Commander Johnson's narrative of loss of USS Glennon (DD-620)
- Commander Knuepfers' narrative of loss of USS Meredith (DD-726)
- Lt. Comdr. Crane's narrative of loss of USS Tide (AM-125)
- Lt. Comdr. John Bulkeley Interview re: PT-517 at Normandy
- Lt. Commander Tutt's narrative of loss of USS LST-314 (including experiences at Sicily and Salerno)
- Lt. Becker's narrative of loss of USS LCI(L)-219 (including experiences at Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio)
- Narrative of operations of salvage ships at Normandy -- Commander Byron S. Huie, Jr., USNR
- Narrative of Second Beach Battalion at UTAH Beach -- Commander John F. Curtin, USNR
- The United States Navy Medical Department at War, 1941-1945, Vol. I, Part 3:
The Invasion
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, D-Day Message, Leaflet, 6 Jun 1944
- UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II:
- The European Theater of Operations:
- AMERICAN FORCES IN ACTION:
- Omaha Beachhead (6 June-13 June 1944)
- Utah Beach to Cherbourg (6 June-27 June 1944)
- St-Lo (7 July - 19 July 1944) [CMH]
- Small Unit Actions: Pointe du Hoe (2d Ranger Battalion, 6 June 1944)
- US ARMY CAMPAIGNS OF WWII:
- UK MILITARY SERIES: HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR:
- Victory in the West, Volume 1: Battle of Normandy
- THE CANADIAN ARMY AT WAR:
- OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN ARMY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR:
- The Canadian Army 1939-1945: An Official Operational Summary
- The Victory Campaign: The Operations in North-West Europe
- Debriefing Conference on D-Day, 82d Airborne Division Report, Aug 1944
The Air Campaigns
- UNITED STATES STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY: Summary Report (Europe)
- THE ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II:
- ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945:
- Vol. III The Fight Is Won
- Leaping the Atlantic Wall: Army Air Forces Campaigns in Western Europe, 1942-1945
- D-Day 1944: Air Power Over the Normandy Beaches and Beyond
- Sunday Punch in Normandy: The Tactical Use of Heavy Bombardment in the Normandy Invasion
- And a contrary view from the Air Force: OVERLORD: The Unnecessary Invasion
Additional Resources
- Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Normandy 1944
- Field Marshall Karl R. Gerd von Rundstedt's Report on the Allied Invasion of Normandy
- National D-Day Museum
- D-Day & the Battle of Normandy
- Back to Normandy
- Normandy: 1944 [Encyclopedia Britannica]
- In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 [The Valour and the Horror]
- 55th Anniversary of D-Day
- 50th Anniversary of D-Day
- Guts and Glory documentary on D-Day from American Experience
- The U.S. Coast Guard at Normandy
- After D-Day: The Normandy Campaign
- The Naval Campaign:
- D-Day Naval Memorial
- The Air Campaign:
- Bomber Command
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