D-Day

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The invasion on D Day was successful. It led to the liberation of France & western Europe & the defeat of Germany. The fact that the Allies had total naval freedom of action and air superiority was crucial. The planning that went into it was extensive and was in the main wholly effective. The deception plan which featured FUSAG (The mythical First US Army Group, nominally commanded by Patton) was believed to be effective in disinformation, many German High Commanders believed D Day was a feint to divert force from the Pas de Calais region. Strategic bombing delayed & indeed prevented Panzer forces deployment to the beacheads and to Normandy in general. Crucially the Allies took 2 ports, Mulberries, with them, pre cast concrete caissons which formed 2 harbours, one was subsequently destroyed in a storm. the landings of Airborne forces on the flanks, US in the West & British on the East of the 5 beaches was also very effective and proved their worth. Pluto, the Pipe Line Under The Ocean, delivered fuel direct to the beachead.

The Germans knew that the Allies were going to invade at some time. The difficulty was in determining WHERE they were going to make their landing. The coastline of France was very large which made it difficult to defend. Through use of deception by the Allies, the German high command was convinced that the best location for the landing was Pas-de-Calias, which was the best port city that was shortest distance from England. A few years earlier, England launched a raiding force that landed in Dieppe, which was defeated. The concept then was that the landing force had to immediately capture a port city so that supplies could be brought in to support the attacking troops. However, Normandy was no where near a city port. They landed in a wide-open beach and they brought their own docks. Then their plan was to spread out and capture the port cities at Cherbourg and others along the coast. This did not fit into the German's theory that the Allies would have to land very close to a port city.

D-day, or Dembarkation day, took place on June 6, 1944. Early in the morning two American Airborne Divisions and one British Airborne Division was dropped behind enemy lines. Later, the Allied forces stormed the beaches along the Normandy coast. They were codenamed: Gold, Sword, Juno, Utah, and Omaha. The Canadians assaulted Juno beach and encountered little German resistance. The British attacked Gold and Sword beaches also meeting little resistance. The Americans assaulted Utah beach where they meet more resistance than the other three. But, Omaha was a different story. The men ran across the huge beach with no where to run or hide and were shot down. When they reached the end of the beach they were stuck along the cliffs for hours. It was said that when the battle was over that the waves literally ran red with blood. Another assault took place at Point du Hoc. The American 2nd Rangers climbed the high cliffs of which the Germans above were shooting at them. Their mission was to destroy the hidden enemy guns on the top. But, when they reached the top they found that the guns had been moved and replaced with telephone poles. The guns were found hours later in an apple orchard. But, the battle was just beggining.
on June 6th, 1944

they thought that the invasion in Normandy was a distraction, and that the real invasion would be in the south of France. so they went down to the south of France, but there was no invasion.

Operation Overlord

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Overlord

Of the 6,000 ground troops landed in the raid, 5,000 were Canadian.

There were somewhere between 432-450 Medals of Honor awarded for WWII.

The beaches of Normandy. :)

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Two British (codenamed "Gold" and "Sword"), two American ("Omaha" and "Utah"), one Canadian ("Juno").

The Allied attack on Normandy was almost cancelled due to bad weather. However, Eisenhower finally agreed to let it happen. Although the weather did have some effect, the Germans weren't as prepared because they thought that surely no attack would come that day.

D-Day marked the day of the beginning of the Invasion of Normandy by the Allied forces of WWII on June 6, 1944. It was the largest sea-borne invasion in history, with between 130,000 and 150,000 troops landing in one day.

Dasom (pronounced Dah-sohm soft s)comes from the old Korean verb "닷오다" and conjugated to "닷옴". It supposedly means "love".

11. D- Day was June 6, 1944. Germany surrendered May 8, 1945.

The 1st and 29th US divisions had over 5,300 casualties on Omaha Beach on the first day.

The United Kingdom lost 400 man and the Germans lost more.

Percussion (cap lock) rifles, pistols, and shotguns. Thee were still flintlocks around, but being converted to caplocks.

they had a big food fight, which where the catalan tradition comes from

Normandy, France

It is about 2 hours and a half to 3 hours, depending on traffic really.

Probably all of European countries.

they used the banglores , m1 Grand ,BAR , Thompson sub machine gun , PSH

Yes, by 20,000 men.

5 beaches. Omaha, Utah, Sword, Gold, and Juno Beach.