D-Day

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.

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.

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.

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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.