D-Day

Firstly, D-day is a general term used by the military along with H-hour. Military planners have to plan a long way ahead, and more often than not the starting time and even the starting date won't be known until almost the last minute. So, the planners assume that the start date will be D-day, and the start time will be H-hour. All orders to units taking part specify an action at H-hour, H+3, H+4 etc. Even H-12 at times. These orders are further specified as D+3, D+4, D+6 etc. When the start time is fixed by the Commander, all units are told when will be D-Day. Soldiers everywhere are well aware that in general D-Day is the starting day for some operation or other. In the summer of 1944, a large force of Americans, British and Canadians (accompanied by smaller numbers of Free French, Poles and others) launched an operation against Normandy, on the North-West coast of France. The purpose was to establish and hold a bridgehead so that very large numbers of troops with armour, artillery,engineers, transport and supplies could be landed. The final objective was to destroy Hitler's Germany. The original planned date was June 5th 1944, but due to very bad weather it was put off until the 6th. H-hour was 0600, but in fact the first actions began well before midnight when a glider-borne group of British commandos seized a vital bridge. Later in the night large forces of the 82nd airborne and the 101st airborne parachuted in to take and hold vital road junctions and stop the Nazis from counter-attacking in force while the allied forces were still on the beaches. This operation was the largest amphibious assault anywhere, anywhen; it attracted huge attention then and still does today, and of course it succeeded. With intense media coverage, the public all over the world repeatedly heard stories of D-Day. The actual code name of the invasion was Operation Overlord, but the people in all the allied countries know what they are going to call June 6th 1944 - it was, and is - D-Day.

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Operation OVERLORD

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we still remeber d day because it was the larget seaborne in history and nearly 10,000 people got wounded or killed.

The soldiers were eager to get World War II over with. The strategies laid out for the D-Day invasion proved to be quite stressful for the men, but they needed to do their job and they did.

June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory." More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day's end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded.

June 6, 1944

The British and the French fought with the Germans on the Western Front.

Normandy.

Juno

Gold

Omaha

Sword

Utah

Those last 5 were the specific beaches.

Massive Allied armies landed by air and sea on the coast of Normandy to challenge the German occupation forces.

UTAH

The Battle of Normandy was June 6, 1944 in case anyone was wondering, now to answer the question. The Battle of Normandy consisted of five beach assaults and several air drop missions. The United States amphibious assault landed at Utah and Omaha, The British amphibious assault landed at Gold, Juno and Sword. At approximately the same time US Airborne forces parachuted into Normandy near the towns of St Mere Eglise, and Carentan, and the British Airborne forces parachuted in near the town of Caen.

well one d-day was one day (june 6) and yes it was a sucsess the allies took over the beaches and eventually pushed inland

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During World War II, the code-name for the Allied invasion of Normandy (France) was "Operation Overlord". Taking place in June of 1944, this invasion was the first attempt by the Allied forces to break directly into German-occupied Europe.

It was a well planned invasion of France planned by the Allies during World War II. It was about getting troops into France in order to take it back from the Germans and then move into Germany to end the war.

The Allied Nations Won, America, Canada, Britain, etc..

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I am looking to sell an autographed picture of the Enola Gay the plane that bombed Hiroshima in World War II. I would like to know its value. The Enola Gay is in flying condition and on display at the Smithsonian Institution Museum at Dulles airport in Washington DC. The Pilot, Paul Tibbets, was a frequent visitor until his death in 2007.

Yes. Normandy is the northern coast of France located in the continent of Europe. On D-Day the beaches were stormed with allied troops who seeked to push forward to reach the western front of Europe.

Because if they hadn't captured France the Germans would have had huge advantage in invading Britain.

Exercise Tiger is a good example where nearly a thousand US GIs were lost in preparation for D-Day when a convoy was ambushed by German E boats off the Devon coast. A good book by Ken Small, The Forgotten Dead, tells of the recovery of a Sherman tank from the sea bed which is now a war memorial on Slapton Sands, South Devon. Another feature was the disinformation of FUSAG, the mythical First US Army Group, nominally commanded by Patton, which didn't exist.

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D-day was one day in the Invasion of Normandy. Therefore, D-day was over at midnight on June 6, 1944. However, the Invasion of Normandy continued.

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