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Good afternoon everyone！Before making a speech, I want to ask you a question.Do you know what happened on June 6th of 1944? Who knows it? Please raise your hand.If you can‟t say it in English, speaking Chinese is OK.Yeah, it is the Normandy [nɔrməndi]Landing.I think most of you must have learned it from your history textbook.Am I right？OK, however, there are a lot of interesting and important stories which our textbook doesn‟t tell us.And this is what I am going to talk about.First of all, you may have learned that the Normandy Landing is also called “the opening of the second battlefield”.So what does “the second” mean? Who knows it? Raise your hand, please.Yeah, at that time Soviet[soʊviet] was battling against Germany and Soviet was thrown into dilemma[dɪlɛmə].Lots of troops were ruined and Moscow was almost seized[si:z].So Stalin[stɑ:lin] demanded his allies Britain and America do something to relieve his burden[bɜ:dn].But the Prime Minister Churchill [tʃə:tʃil] had his own thoughts.He wanted to benefit from the battle between the two countries.So he took pains to find the excuses for his delay[dɪleɪ].He said Britain had no ability to open the second battlefield.Why did Churchill say so? Because he attached importance to the Middle East and the Mediterranean[medɪtə‟reɪniən].Britain had plenty of colonies[„kɒləni] at these places and they were likely to be attacked by Axis Powers.Obviously, in his opinion, defending British interests was the most important.Although the opening of the second battlefield was delayed year after year, Allied Powers finally decided to launch the plan in 1944.But is it so easy? Allied Forces thought the vital problem was the landing place.There were two ideal places.One was Calais['kæleɪ], the other was Normandy.Now let us analyze the two places.Calais was the nearest landing point.But German had established many strongholds there.Normandy was far from Britain but the beach was wide, which would help spread huge amounts of troops.If you were the commander in 1944, which place would you choose? Sounds a little difficult.But what is the vital factor of a military action? It is acting abruptly and surprisingly.You may have heard of the famous saying in Sunzi‟s art of war.It is “March where the enemy can‟t imagine and attack what the enemy doesn‟t defend”.Sounds a bit familiar? Because Calais was the nearest landing point, German gueed Allied Forces would land at Calais.Of course they established lots of strongholds so landing would pay a heavy price.The next problem for Allied Forces was how to hide their real purpose.German was not a fool.If German perceived the real purpose, they would transfer their troops from Calais to Normandy.So intelligence was significant.In order to deceive the enemy, Allied Forces did what they could do.They established a strong army called “the First Group Army” and deployed the army near Calais and most importantly, they aigned George Barton to be the commander.Now we know it is fictitious[fɪktɪʃəs].But in 1944 German didn‟t know.George Barton was famous for his outstanding military talent and German was afraid of him.They thought: Oh, Barton became the commander of the First Group Army, it meant the Allied Forces would take a big action.They paid attention to the army and aigned spy planes to Britain to get information about the army.Allied Forces made full use of these German spy planes.They deployed lots of tanks, planes and cannons[kænən] around the base of the First Group Army.But they were all made of rubber.So interesting, right? They were not the real weapons.However, German spy planes couldn‟t distinguish the differences.They returned to Germany and told Hitler the wrong information.However, doing these was not enough to deceive the enemy.In order to prove that the First Group Army truly existed, Allied Forces developed a great number of double agents.Double agent means a spy serve two countries at the same time.The double agents were used by German to get intelligence from Allied Forces.Of course they gave the wrong information to German.They said Allied Forces would land at Calais and the First Group Army was very strong.The most inconceivable thing was that Allied Forces even used actors.They managed to find an actor who resembled[rɪzembl] the Marshal Montgomery[mɑntɡʌməri] very much.The real Montgomery hid and the actor flew to North Africa.German spies in North Africa followed the Marshal secretly and reported all his activities to German Forces.It gave German Forces a wrong impreion that Allied Forces would take an action in North Africa so they didn‟t dare to transfer all their troops from North Africa to North France.All in all, a series of intelligence deceptions and other aistant strategies made German believe that Allied Forces would land at Calais.What is worse, when Allied Forces began to land at Normandy, German Forces even believed it was an illusive military action.The chief commander Eisenhower['aɪzən‟haʊər] called the first day of landing “the longest day”.The famous German Marshal Rommel[„rɑməl] called it “the decisive 24 hours”.In the end Allied Forces won the decisive 24 hours.When German reinforcements[ri:ɪn‟fɔ:smənt] arrived, it was too late.That‟s all.Thank you very much!