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Life How the D-Day Invasion Was Planned On June 6, 1944, the greatest invasion in military history took place on the beaches of France. Popular Mechanics was there to explain how the Allies did it. By: Popular Mechanics Editors
In speaking of the greatest military assault in history—the invasion of France by the Allied forces—Prime Minister Churchill said:
"Everything proceeded according to plan. And what a plan!"
The magnitude of that plan, worked out by persons Herr Hitler once called "military idiots," staggers the imagination. It embraced the air, ground and sea forces of this nation and our allies. It hurdled problems of supply and transport, of pre-invasion training, of production and improvement of weapons, of photo-reconnaissance and mapping on a scale that makes the battle plans of Napoleon look like a game of checkers. More than 125,000,000 maps alone, just to mention one item, were used in perfecting the master invasion plan.
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