Bangor's main pier is named after General Dwight D Eisenhower, commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces for Operation Overlord From a beach training ground to the inspection of 30,000 American ...

was nominated as ground commander because Eisenhower's forte was considered to be strategy rather than military tactics. Operation Overlord, it was decided, would be timed to coincide with ...

Everyone with knowledge of the D-Day planning work - Operation Overlord - which included the landing beaches and the date of the Invasion were security cleared and were listed on what was known as ...

Eisenhower Presidential Library ... The Allied invasion of northwest Europe was given the code name ‘Operation Overlord,’ while the assault phase was named ‘Operation Neptune.’ ...