Analyse the reasons why the British were successful in the Battle of Normandy, June-August 1944?

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Q3.Analyse the reasons why the British were successful in the Battle of Normandy, June-August 1944?

There are many main reasons why the British were so successful when attacking the Germans in Normandy, which made them infinitely greater than the German forces. The British were without a doubt more experienced and better equipped in airpower, armour and artillery.  The Germans lacked in these resources which gave the British even more of an advantage. Hitler was a drawback for the Germans, although he had got them this far through the war and had captured France, he did make some poor military decisions when defending France. In this essay I will expand these points and add others.

Firstly, the success of D-Day was a huge break through for the British forces, after a long time in planning the attack, the day arrived and on that one day a 60km bridgehead was secured, which meant there was a constant supply of soldiers to build up forces, artillery and many other supplies. Pluto and the Mulberry Harbours, brought supplies over, and in total brought ashore over 54,000 tonnes of supplies each day. When all added up these were essential in order to remain in France for long periods of time. Operation Fortitude was a great success as it caused the response of the Germans to be massively delayed, as they were sure that an attack would come from the allies at Pas de Calais, this gave the allies time to bring in reinforcements.

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Despite the immediate success of the allies, it was not long until the Germans finally got their act together and slowed the British forces progression rapidly. A few miles from the beaches the first obstacles were encountered. The bocage, a layer if hedging, making a wall like structure was built in the countryside to prevent the tanks from advancing any further, which is a great help to the Germans, as they were one of the most influential piece of equipment. Because of the bocage neither Allied nor German forces could see through it so they fired through it, hoping ...

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