The Allies attacked five beaches simultaneously by the code names of Omaha, Juno, Gold, Sword, and Utah by coming up from submarines in the water. When they came up from the water, it was in the middle of the night while the Germans were asleep as a surprise attack was needed to give the Allies the upper hand. A man by the name of Liddell Hart, a historian of military focus, says, "the purpose of strategy is to diminish the possibility of resistance.” He continued on to say, “Even if a decisive battle be the goal, the aim of strategy must be to bring about this battle under the most advantageous circumstances. And the more advantageous the circumstances, the less, proportionately, will be the fighting.” Basically, he is saying that the strategies were chosen to bring a strong advantage as far as the situations went so there wouldn't be the possibility of as much bloodshed or the enemy lines fighting back. The idea behind attacking from so many different locations was to get the German soldiers so spread out that none of the armies present could present a large enough defense to win. The Allies tricked Germany into believing there were 350,000 soldiers in Scotland that were coming to invade from the north in a pretend army code named …show more content…
This was the first real victory the Allies had taken part in. Led by Captain Montgomery, the army was able to overtake Rommel's troops. Rommel, however, was a very skilled and intelligent general and was well known for doing a lot with a little. He could do much more with fewer men and supplies than most. He came to a pause because he was completely out of supplies, especially oil, and was waiting for his ships to bring more, but the ships were over taken by the SAS and Long Range Desert Group, which did a lot of damage to the supplies and aided the victory. In the battle of Almein, 800 big guns, tanks, and airplane bombings attacked Rommel's troops and they were forced to move back. The Allies did not give them time to heal or replan anything before they attacked again in Algeria, trapping Rommel between the British and American forces on both sides. Much of Hitler's best men and equipment were destroyed in this battle and left a damaged group behind. It encouraged the soldiers fighting for the Allies that they could do it because Hitler's forces were not impossible to beat. If they did it once, they can do it