a. This plan provides for the movement to the British
Isles of U. S. air and ground forces comprising approximately one 
million men to participate with the British in an invasion of France 
between Le Havre and Boulogne. Logistic factors fix the earliest 
possible date for an attack on this scale at about April 1, 1943. 
Bottlenecks, as to time, will be shipping and landing craft, which 
will not be available in sufficient quantity the time that air-
craft, ground equipment and ammunition can be supplied.
 
                       b.      The operation proper is divided into three phases:
 
                                (1) Preparatory phase. (From now until April 1, 1943).
                                (2) The cross-channel movement and seizure of the
beach head.
                               (3) The consolidation of the beach head with a view
to further operations.
 
                               (1) Preoaratory Phase
                 During the preparatory phase maximum effort to
he made to complete the organization, equipment and training of the
air and ground forces involved, and to coordinate all productive
effort toward this objective. This includes the early establishment
of additional air installations in England, and the movement to the
British Isles of air and ground forces to complete their training
in conjunction with the British. A continued air offensive against
vitalAxis targets on the mainland of Europe should be carried out
prior to April 1, 1943. In addition to the destruction accomplished
this will enable American and Brittish air forces to work together
and so develop a coordinated combat team.  Likewise, participation
of U. S. ground troops in raids at ainst the coast of continental
Europe from Norway to the souther limits of occupied France will not
only harass the German occupying forces, but will aid materially in
the training of U.S. and British ground forces, and will obtain
information concerning the organization of the German defenses along
the coast. Above all, it will produce the coordinated combat methods
vital to success. During the final two weeks just prior to the land
invasion, an intensification of air activities against the invasion
front will be carried out with the view to neutralizing the Axis air
forces on that front and to beating down the Axis defensive system.
 
          (2) The cross channel movement and later consolidation.
               The invasion itself will consist of a cross-channel
movement and the seizure of a beach between Le Havre and Boulogne,