D-Day

There are currently 1,320 surviving veterans who fought during World War II. World War II was fought from 1939-1945. There are veterans from Germany, the United States, France, the UK, and Australia, the Philippines, and other countries.

They had originally planned to land on the 5th of June, to tie in with the moon etc.

But due to the weather deteriorating by the 4th of June it was unsuitable to land. After all high seas would make landing craft impossible to land and clouds would stop aircraft finding targets. So they sheltered in bays on the south coast of Britain. It seemed that everything would be cancelled.

However on the 5th of June the forecast for the 6th showed a small improvement, so they launched the attack on the 6th. In the meantimes the Germans were happy, they thought the weather would be impossible to launch an invasion. But they were wrong

So the weather wasn't great, but it was good enough, there was a bit of swell and a few clouds around but the invasion went ahead as planned although a day late

D Day is from World War II. The Normandy Landings on the coast of France were the landing operations of the Allied invasion against the Germans during World War II. The landings commenced on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (D-Day). In planning, D-Day was the term used for the day of actual landing.

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The true answer is that the 'd' in 'd-day' stands for "day". It could just as well have been called D-0 (zero) because there follows D+1, D+2, D+3 and so on.

But you have to admit that d-day is much more useful and understandable than d-0.

There are about 23,000 German soldiers buried in in the Normady region.

d-day is celebrated every where in Europe especially in France, that is where the Allies landed to liberate Europe during the 2nd WW

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It depends a lot on what country the dead soldier fought for. The US and British had efficient and staffed graved registration forces that followed the battle fields, and tagged and buried the dead, with maps and locations, which were used later to move the bodies to a central graveyard. The American are unique in that they have fewer, larger cemeteries, while the British have numerous small cemeteries all over France and the low countries. The dead Germans were generally well cared for as well, and many of their graves have names of the dead. Many German graves have 4 bodies per headstone, as in LaCombe Cemetery, where Michael Wittmann and his crew are buried.

The Russians were known to obliterate German cemeteries in Russia, as they pushed the Germans out of their country, so many of those graves are lost forever. The loser of the battle has nothing to say with how their dead are handled.

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However, many of the Germans were NOT buried because of the utter disgust the soldiers that were tasked to bury them showed them, they simply dumped the bodies and left them, possibly the most you will find of one of these bodies are bones...

Omaha Beach Dog Green Sector.

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The D stands for nothing. The use stems from military language, where it was a way of saying 'the designated day', in the same way that the French speak of 'le jour J' or "l'heure H", using the first letter of the noun to avoid stating it, or because the date or hour were not set.

Couuntless lives were lost for one

It was officially known as Operation Overlord, and was also known as the D-Day Invasion or just "Normandy".

Including all Land, Navy and Air forces: Allied Forces: 1,450,000 German Forces: 380,000

The D-Day invasion was in Normandy, not at Dunkirk.

D Day was the term used for the actual day of landing, which was dependent on final approval. The code D Day represents a variable in military terms. It is a day upon which some event will have or may have taked place. It has various meaning, but above all it may be translated as the Day of Days or Day- Day, in this case 6th June 1944. The allied invasion of Normandy was also know as Operation Overlord and Operartion Neptune

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It wasn't a turning point, it was the liberation of Western Europe. The turning point in Europe in WWII was the Battle Of Stalingrad.

Although there were errors overall the D Day mission was a success

Gen Omar Bradley was in charge of the US Divisions that attacked on D-Day.

June 6, 1944.

Utah, Gold, Juno, Sword, Omaha

On the first day of the invasion there were three U.S. divisions, two British divisions and one Canadian division. The British Divisions were the 50th Northumbrian Division that landed on Gold Beach and the British 3rd Infantry Division landed on Sword Beach.

In 1944 in England where thousands of military vehicles were being staged for the D Day invasion of France the US Army was directed to paint the broken circle around the national stars located on these vehicles already. It is the reason for this directive that we seek information. Answer: According to my research, there was an order requiring all US military vehicles to have a national Star insignia painted on them. However, there were many variations of this. Some had no circle, some had a full circle and some had a broken circle. The size also varied. There were vehicles in Italy that also had the star with circle markings. So, I don't think it was unique to the Normandy invasion. One veteran wrote a biography entitled "And There Shall Be Wars". He said that they "stole" a jeep from the Air Force that had a star with a circle. Since this marking was unique to the Air Force units, they re-painted the markings to remove the star. (This is his opinion and may not be accurate.) Army regulation AR850-5 provided the guidance for the use of markings on military vehicles during WWII. It left the use of the national star decision up to the theater commander. There are no broken circles arounf the stars illustrated in that regulation. There is the possibility that Eisenhauer having noticed the German Army's propensity to use decption with their equipment appearance decided at the last minute to add the broken circle to our national white star realizing the Germans would not have time to add it to their vehicles meant to fool us.