D-Day was planned to begin with Paratroopers dropping into France by moonlight, the late evening or early morning before the invasion. Their goal was to take over the bridges and roads that the Germans to move the battlefields once the invasion began. The rest of the troops would land on 5 beaches.
After the explosion. Although no information on the test was released until after the atomic bomb was used as a weapon against Japan, people in New Mexico knew something had happened. ... Army officials simply stated that a munitions storage area had accidentally exploded at the Alamogordo Bombing Range.