Good afternoon, I am a new member from Colorado. I stumbled upon this forum while looking for information on Operation Overlord and decided to join in order to be able to read through some of the very interesting threads WW2talk members have contributed to over the years. I am looking forward to learning new information and participate in future discussions with the members here. Thanks,
Welcome, Alex. There is good discussion here. Consider looking at ww2f.com, the sister site to fine crew. It is oriented toward the US actions in the war. You'll see a lot of the same members from here there.
Thanks Chris! The official US Signal Corps description reads as follow: Pvt Louis A. Mayerski, 2900E 112 Th st Cleveland, O., reads his prayer book in a foxhole near the front lines in the Saint-Lô sector. Co L 38th regt. 2nd inf.div. 130744 The full photograph is accessible via the link below: Source: www.archives-manche.fr https://www.archives-manche.fr/arko...lem_rotate=F&uielem_islocked=0&uielem_zoom=56
Excuse my ignorance, but Overlord being the code name for D-Day I believe. Is there any information why this code name was picked? Stefan.
Good afternoon Lindele, Overlord was the codename for the invasion of northwest Europe. The specific codename for D-Day was operation Neptune. According to the International Churchill Society: Morgan assembled an Anglo-American staff that became known as COSSAC, taken from the first letters of his new title (Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander). They were to complete a detailed invasion plan by 1 August 1943. At that point the plan needed a new code name. The British Inter Service Security Board had the role of assigning clearly differentiated names for each of the numerous Allied operations then underway. Unfortunately, the only name available was “MOTHBALL.” When Morgan presented Operation MOTHBALL to Churchill, he went right through the roof. “Do you mean to tell me that those bloody fools want our grandchildren 50 years from now to be calling the operation that liberated Europe Operation Mothball? If they can’t come up with a better code name for our landing than that, I damn well will pick the code name myself.” Morgan said that Churchill “glowered for a moment” and then shouted, “Overlord. We shall call it Overlord.” That is how the greatest D-Day of them all came to be known to posterity as Operation Overlord. It was one of Churchill’s most important personal contributions to the invasion plan. Source: “Churchill and Roosevelt: The Struggle over D-Day Alternatives” - International Churchill Society (winstonchurchill.org)
Hi Alex, thanks for this pretty amusing explanation for such a serious military operation. I keep on learning about things on WW2 Stefan.
