A French spy posed as a decorator to steal Rommel's plans of the French Coastal Defences from his office.

D-Day Documents

View	Letter from General Montgomery, overall ground force commander for the invasion, to his friend Major - General Frank Simpson, Director of Military Operations. Montgomery landed in Normandy on June 8 and wrote this letter from his tactical headquarters. Click for a full transcript
View	Message from Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force, issued to troops under his command just prior to D-Day.

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Aerial leaflet with a message from
Eisenhower to French civilians, warning
them of imminent air raids and urging
them to leaver their homes for several
days. The leaflet was dropped on 16
Normandy towns thirty minutes before
the bombing raids began. View

Map produced by Allied Intelligence,
showing the state of knowledge of the
German positions in Normandy as
on June 5 1944. View


Extract from pocket diary of Sergeant
G E Hughes, 4 -10 June. 1944. On
D-Day Hughes, then a corporal landed at
Arromanches in the initial assault wave
at about 7.20 a.m. View

View a transcript of the diary page

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