ABSTRACT
J & lthough the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, caught the German Army by surprise on the day, in terms of timing and location the Wehrmacht had been making extensive preparations to fight the Western
Allies in France for several months. The campaign in northwest Europe saw Hitler’s army ground down against
the huge material resources of the Americans and British. The Germans now faced a technologically advanced enemy that had control of the air in a large-scale battle. However, the ability of the Wehrmacht to fight against these odds was enormously to its credit as a military machine.
