Battle of Normandy/Related Articles

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World War II [r]: (1931–1945) The most destructive global war in human history that killed 53 million people. With battles in Europe, Africa, Asia and the South Pacific, the "Allies" (UK, US, Soviet Union) eventually stopped the aggressively expanding "Axis" (Germany, Japan). ^[e]
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dwight D. Eisenhower [r]: (1890-1969) A career soldier who was the top Allied commander in Europe in World War II, and who later served as the 34th president of the United States (1953-1961). ^[e]
Operation OVERLORD [r]: Allied code name for general operations in northern and western Europe in 1944. ^[e]
London Controlling Section [r]: An extremely secret British staff organization, in World War II, in charge of strategic deception, principally to convince the Nazis that the main invasion of Europe would come at any of a variety of places other than Normandy; U.S. counterpart was Joint Security Control ^[e]
- Plan BODYGUARD [r]: In World War II, the main Allied strategic deception plan to convince the Wehrmacht that the main invasion of the continent of Europe would take place at the Pas de Calais, while diversions would be staged at other locations including Normandy. ^[e]

Operation NEPTUNE [r]: Allied code name, within Operation Overlord, for the actual Normandy landing on D-Day (6 June 1944). ^[e]
Eisenhower and the Normandy Invasion [r]: The decisionmaking of Dwight D. Eisenhower associated with the Battle of Normandy and the selection of the place and date of that invasion ^[e]

Bernard Montgomery [r]: Field Marshal of the British Army, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, senior British and joint commander in the Second World War (1887-1976) ^[e]
- Twenty-first Army Group [r]: First major operational headquarters in 1944 Operation OVERLORD in Western Europe; Commonwealth force commanded by Gen. Bernard Montgomery and served as ground forces headquarters for the Operation NEPTUNE initial landings ^[e]
Omar Bradley [r]: (1893-1981) An American general during World War II and the Korean war, as well as Chief of Staff of the Army and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ^[e]
- Twelfth Army Group [r]: Second major operational headquarters in the invasion of Western Europe under Operation OVERLORD; commanded by Gen. Omar Bradley and activated on 1 August 1944, with 21 ground divisions and air support totalling 903,000 men. ^[e]
George Patton [r]: (1885 - 1945) Controversial American general in World War II, famed for his successes in armored warfare against the Germans in 1944-45. ^[e]
- First U.S. Army Group [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Third United States Army [r]: In United States Central Command, the headquarters organization for United States Army Components. Also designated ARCENT. ^[e]