D-Day

The main Allied leaders were Gen Eisenhower, Gen Bradley, and Generals Huebner, Gerhardt, Gerow, Ridgway, Cota, Montgomery, Gale, Dempsey and Bucknall. German leaders were Gen Erwin Rommel, Dollman, Kraiss, Von Schlieben, and many others.

D-Dimer is a product of fibrin degradation, which is a protein fragment present after a blood clot is degraded through fibrinolysis (a test used to analyze blood clots). A fibrin is a non-globular protein that results from the coagulation (clotting process) of blood.

On an atomic level, the fibrin protein has two D fragments, cross-linked between an E fragment. In biochemical terms, it is expressed as D-E-D, which is where the D in D-dimer comes from.

The test for D-dimer was not discovered until the 1970's, and practical applications were not found until the 1990's. It is currently used to test for and identify numerous clotting related blood disorders.

The German divisions guarding the beaches fought back as well as they could. They were having ammunition shortages for many guns and also many tank regiments were not in the right place to be effective.

Gen Bradley was present on the cruiser USS Augusta at the actual landings, and landed himself on the 7th.

This was because he was so well known even to the Germans. The successful result of this, helped by thousands of fake tanks and trucks, was that German High command were convinced Patton had an army ready to land at Calais -200 miles northeast of the real invasion.

There were at least 8 waves on each Beach. Troops landed all day long as soon as other landing craft cleared from the beaches.

There are dozens of good books about D-Day, certainly enough to fill a large shelf in your city library. -Among the best in my opinion are "The Longest Day" by Cornelius Ryan and "The Steel Wave" by Jeff Shaara.

Over 150,000 troops and almost 9,000 vehicles landed by sea on the 6th June. -More men, vehicles and stores followed every day.

To Be Announced

They landed over 175,000 soldiers and almost 1,000 armoured fighting vehicles.

The Wermacht were the main Divisions guarding the French coast, but quite a few SS Panzer units were just a little further inland and quickly got to the battle areas.

The first and second waves of soldiers finally began to get off Omaha Beach around mid-day after being pinned down for over 4 hours.

Yes, there were units of Australian and New Zealand soldiers at D-Day.

The Canadian Divisions landed on Juno Beach, held the beach by 0930 and started landing armour. By nightfall 21,500 Canadians and most of their armour was ashore and in command of a 7 mile semicircle of France.

The US invasion of Grenada to rescue US students and prevent a Cuban foothold there.

There were many, many Generals at D-Day. I would estimate that over 50 General officers of the British, American and Canadian forces were on France by nightfall of D-Day.

Approximately 890 Canadian soldiers died on D-Day. The 23,100 who lived gained more ground than any other Allied Army.

Neville Chamberlain decided to tell the world that the world was going to world with Germany.

Over 150,000 soldiers landed on the 6th June. Many more came every day after that until there were over 2.5 million Allied servicemen in Europe

The Germans were convinced any invasion would be at the narrowest part of the English Channel - between Dover and Calais.

Operation Overlord

D-Day happened on June 6, 1944 and it was led in person by General Bernard Montgomery of Britain and General Omar Bradley of USA.

The Germans, particularly in Rommel's area - Normandy, had many strong bunkers and gun emplacements. Erwin Rommel was greatly in favor of strengthening the coast.

Figures are difficult. The military of both sides only reported "casualties" . Also many were wounded D-Day, but died later.

There were 4,184 'casualties' on Omaha beach on D-Day. I am not aware how many of those died.