Talk:Operation Overlord

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Contents 1 Redirect 2 Framework 3 Incomplete sentence 4 Albany, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Elmira

[edit] Redirect

The Battle of Normandy article discusses all of this in much greater depth. There is no need to leave a permanent stub here just to explain the operation name, as it's given in the first sentence of the Normandy article. (Indeed, this is the canonical example given here of redirecting operational names to geographic ones. Kirill Lokshin 18:22, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Normandy Campaign is much closer to the military actions to the correspond to Overlord than Battle of Normandy. I fixed it. DJ Clayworth (talk) 21:24, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Please note that there is discussion about possible renaming this article at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/World War II task force. DJ Clayworth (talk) 15:16, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Framework

Since we've made the move, we should try to integrate the pages into a cohesive whole a bit more. Would anyone object to the following framework for Overlord?

• Background
  • Events leading up to Overlord
  • Allied preparations
  • German preparations
• Forces involved (main: An Order of Battle page)
• Course of the campaign
  • Invasion and establishment (main: Invasion of Normandy)
  • Breakout
• Aftermath
• Analysis

Oberiko (talk) 18:06, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Incomplete sentence

This is from the section 'The Normandy Campaign in context'

"As the Allies were closing in on Paris and sealing the Falaise Gap, an invasion in southern France."

It's a sentence fragment. I can't tell from the context how to correct it. Wanderer57 (talk) 17:54, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

I fixed it. Thanks for pointing it out :) Parsecboy (talk) 19:23, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Albany, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Elmira

The Battle of Normandy box in the left side that has links for all FIVE different US airborn operations as well as a link for the overall American Airborn element. As the American Airborn article has links for all five individual operations, The battle of normandy box does not need to be crammed with all 5 operations. It just spamms things up. Im am removing them as a result since they are all available in the American Airborn section.

76.67.43.96 (talk) 05:22, 23 May 2008 (UTC)