The Navy is organized into two task forces: the Western Task Force, which is mainly composed of US warships, a total of 3 battleships, 10 cruisers, 30 destroyers, 280 other warships, and more than 1,700 landing ships, commanded by US Navy Rear Admiral Kirk, assembled in Belfast, and provided air cover by the 9th Air Force of the US Tactical Air Force. It has three formations: Formation U is responsible for transporting the 4th Infantry Division of the US Army to land on the "Utah" beachhead, Formation O is responsible for transporting the 1st Infantry Division of the US Army to land on the "Omaha" beachhead, and Formation B is responsible for transporting the 29th Infantry Division of the US Army to land on the "Omaha" beachhead.

The Eastern Task Force, consisting mainly of British warships, consisted mainly of 3 battleships, 13 cruisers, 30 destroyers, 302 other warships, and 2,426 landing ships, commanded by British Rear Admiral Vian, assembled at Grenok and provided air cover by the 2nd Air Force of the British Tactical Air Force. There are four formations under its jurisdiction: Formation G is responsible for transporting the British 50th Infantry Division to land on the "Golden" beachhead, Formation J is responsible for transporting the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division to land on the "Juno" beachhead, S Formation is responsible for transporting the British 3rd Infantry Division to land on the "Sword" beachhead, and Formation L is responsible for transporting the second echelon of the British 7th Armored Division to land on the "Gold" beachhead.

The Navy also formed five naval artillery fire support groups with 7 battleships, 2 shallow gunboats, 24 cruisers, and 74 destroyers to provide naval artillery fire support for the five beachheads.

In addition to the U.S. 2nd Air Force commanded by Lieutenant General Blayrecho and the British 9th Air Force commanded by Lieutenant General Cunningham, Eisenhower threatened to resign. The command of the British Strategic Bomber Force, commanded by British Air Force General Harris, and the 8th Air Force of the United States Strategic Air Force in Britain, commanded by Major General Doolittle of the United States Air Force, was obtained from the Anglo-American Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, so that the air force of the Supreme Command would have four air units.

The Airborne Forces are the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions of the United States and the 6th Airborne Division of the United Kingdom. This was the largest airborne force that the Allies could assemble in Europe.

To carry out this large-scale campaign, the Allies amassed a total of 2.88 million troops. The army has a total of 36 divisions, including 23 infantry divisions, 10 armored divisions, and 3 paratrooper divisions, with about 1.53 million people. The Navy has about 5,300 warships in operation, including 13 battleships, 47 cruisers, and about 1,200 destroyers. 4126 landing ships. There are also more than 5,000 transport ships. The Air Force has 13,700 combat aircraft, including 5,800 bombers, 4,900 fighters, and 3,000 transport aircraft gliders.

On the German side. At this time, under Li Mo's command, he was not idle. The entire coastline from Belgium to the south of France. A total of 960 kilometers of defense line is also in full swing, and the German Atlantic barrier is still being built at an accelerated pace according to the original plan. There are no anomalies.

The closest section of the defense line to Britain was still the coastline with the most forts built and defensive forces, but the Normandy area was built very quickly, and the building materials needed were also the first to be satisfied.

By the beginning of June, the Germans had built only a few scattered support points along the 960-kilometre coastline, with the exception of Calais, 68 per cent east of the Seine and only 18 per cent west of the Seine.

In terms of coastal artillery, the large-caliber artillery deployed by the German army in the western coastal areas of France mainly included four 280-mm and three 381-mm shore guns in the Cap-Grry area, three 305-mm shore guns in the Vimena area, and three 406-mm shore guns in the western area of Sancart.

In order to keep the strategic landing plan of the Allied forces unchanged, Limer still made the Allies think that they judged that the Allies would land in Belgium, and invested a lot of manpower and material resources on the Belgian coast, building 350 batteries that could deploy 88 mm to 381 mm guns along the coast of Norway.

These fortresses were not built by Limer, this was ordered by Hitler a few months ago, Limer just asked the German troops there to continue to complete the subsequent construction work, and then he could send ten elite German divisions from Norway to France to participate in the war, these fortresses plus the German navy, there should be no problem in temporarily defending Norway, and the Allies would not let their fleet run into the range of land-based aircraft.

In addition, Limer removed all the batteries built on the English Channel islands, and made a total of 11 batteries equipped with 38 210 mm to 305 mm guns, because the project was strategically meaningless and only wasted a lot of valuable manpower and material resources. Limmer ordered the cannons to be delivered immediately to the Normandy area.

Up to this point, there are 160 fortress-type batteries on the entire 80-kilometer defense line of Normandy, and there is only one fortress about every 400 meters, which is equipped with a large-caliber artillery and a reinforced company of soldiers. They were 120 88-mm cannons, 280-mm cannons, 8 381-mm cannons, and 406-mm cannons.

In fact, the "Atlantic barrier" that was hyped up by the German propaganda department was actually just a name, and this Allied spy had already figured out all the defenses of the Atlantic barrier, and they also knew very well that the German Atlantic barrier was a showcase, and of course Li Mo also understood this.

However, this did not prevent Li Mo from doing a little bit of tricks in the Normandy area, speeding up the construction of the fortress on the drawing paper, and the artillery and ammunition forces in the fortress were all widely allocated, you must know that there were 6 divisions and three independent regiments in the Normandy area with 90,000 troops, and only a small half of these troops were deployed in coastal defense in history, because they had to leave a large number of troops in depth to defend against possible airborne operations of the Allied forces, and in fact the Allied forces also did this.

And now Li Mo had asked more than 50,000 troops of the four armored divisions that had been arranged in the depth of Normandy to quietly move forward to the forest 30 kilometers away from Normandy, and they were waiting for the airborne landing of the Allied forces.

90,000 troops to defend 80 kilometers of coastline, is still very weak, almost a meter away from a soldier to defend, of course, the Allies can not launch an 80 kilometers wide offensive surface at the same time, which allows the defending German army to be properly deployed after the start of the war, key areas can be defended by two soldiers per meter, and one soldier at two meters in dangerous terrain.

After Li Mo became commander-in-chief of the Western Front, he attached great importance to the defense of the coastal areas, personally led a special delegation to inspect the coastal defense situation from Denmark, the Netherlands, and France, and specifically demanded that the forward defense should be pushed forward into the sea, starting from the high tide line, laying mines in the deep sea, and setting up obstacles in the shallow sea.

On the beach, there are jagged concrete cones, tank traps, and a large number of mines are laid in between, and concealed fire points are built at the commanding heights overlooking the beach, and in the open area behind the beach, a large number of wooden piles are laid to prevent aircraft from landing, and these explosives and obstacles are arranged, but the project is so huge that it is really impossible to complete, but the Normandy area has been quietly completed, while the other areas have just given up on the pretense of doing it. (To be continued......)