1944 – The D Day Landings – How it was planned 

This event is part of the Pickering 1940’s weekend and  is likely to be a sell out. 

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Everyone knows of the 6th June landings but not about the years of planning that went into making sure the invasion was a success .

Failure would have meant that the war would drag on and it would put  a strain  on the alliance with Stalin who was pushing for the creation of a second front in Europe . 

Paul Oldfield (Historian and Battlefield guide) presents a talk on the planning and genesis of the  D Day landings .

• How The Americans wanted to Invade Europe as early as the autumn of 1942 and why such a plan would have ended in disaster 
• How the landings depended upon success  in other theatres of war -the trans-atlantic and desert campaigns
• What command structure needed to be created and how a major deception plan was created to confuse and mislead the enemy