Talk:Operation Overlord

My recent content removal

I have searched for the supplied quotes in the the citations provided, and have been unable to locate them. Even if the quotes were present, the quotes don't adequately support the added content.

Links checked were:

• https://books.google.com.sb/books?id=mYWa91OD0r8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
• https://ia801605.us.archive.org/32/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.86784/2015.86784.The-War-Department-Strategic-Planning-For-Coalition-Warfare.pdf
• https://history.army.mil/portals/143/Images/Publications/catalog/1-3.pdf

Also, seven citations are overkill. One or two good citations that fully support the added prose are adequate. I can check the Ford/Zaloga book tomorrow and verify the material currently in the article ("Churchill favoured making the main Allied thrust into Germany from the Mediterranean theatre, but the Americans, who were providing the bulk of the men and equipment, over-ruled him.").— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 04:45, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Summary table: Casualties section—tech error?

I’m looking at the Summary Table after the opening paragraph for the article.

In the Casualties/Losses/Deaths section, everything looks fine—except for one item.

In the left column, we see the expected layout (consistent font face, font size, bullet points, country flag icons). But then there’s a strange departure from the normal, which reads:

” 16,714 Allied airmen killed (8,536 members of the USAAF, and 8,178 flying under the command of the RAF)”

If you have knowledge of what this means or is meant to mean, please chime in. If we’re OK deleting that phrase entirely, I support that too: As it’s illogical, it doesn’t add value.

Gobucks821 (talk) 17:40, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Infobox display

@ user:Emiya1980: Adding a bunch of non-breaking spaces in Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg's name adds a blank line on my display (Acer Chromebook, running Chrome). Could we please investigate alternative ways to do this, so that everybody gets a nice display? What awkwardness are you seeing without the non-breaking spaces? — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:58, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Without the non-breaking spaces, everything after "von" goes to the far left side of a new line, resulting in a sort of zig-zag display of the full name. With the non-breaking spaces, both parts of the name appear parallel with one another. This whole issue can be avoided if we applied "no-wraps". Emiya1980 (talk) 16:02, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

No-wrap moved it down to the next line, to the line below the flag. Have a look and see if you like that option. - Diannaa at work ~2026-33141-05 (talk) 16:37, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Allied Operational Forecast Map

I found Map IV in the Cross Channel Attack volume of the US official history to be very interesting and relevant to the debate over whether the campaign went according to plan. I'm afraid that I would mangle the article if I tried to add it, so I'm just going to leave the links for a more skilled editor to use.

https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-E-XChannel/index.html
https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-E-XChannel/maps/USA-E-XChannel-IV.jpg
Indefatigable42 (talk) 02:55, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. The image is already available on the Commons so I have added it to the section "Allied invasion plan". — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:49, 29 August 2026 (UTC)