Why Was Normandy Selected For D-Day?

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08 Sep 2021

In the debut episode of the Logistics of D-Day we explore the logic and planning that resulted in Normandy being chosen as the location for the largest amphibious invasion in the history of human kind.

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References:
[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/D-Day....-Manual-technology-e
[2] https://www.amazon.com/D-Day-A....tlas-Anatomy-Normand
[2] https://www.thecanadianencyclo....pedia.ca/en/article/
[3] https://books.google.ie/books?id=5Fi1CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=hochpf%C3%A4hlen+production&source=bl&ots=7Ic2R6640M&sig=ACfU3U1cOG7_cFismIWGKrYIKDWfhDDUtQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjimJqkgILhAhUlQxUIHSK3D28Q6AEwBnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=hochpf%C3%A4hlen%20production&f=false
[4] https://www.dday-overlord.com/....en/battle-of-normand
[5] https://www.dday-overlord.com/....en/d-day/beaches/oma
[6] https://www.jstor.org/stable/215761?read-now=1&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents
[7] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10632543
[8] http://www.jshawmsc.f2s.com/140squadron.pdf
[9] http://worldwar2headquarters.c....om/HTML/normandy/Hob
[10] https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng..../remembrance/history
[11] https://www.forbes.com/sites/d....avidbressan/2019/06/
[12] https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=2956&context=icchge

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