D-Day

They landed near to St Mere Eglise inland from Utah beach.

Many people died on all of the five beaches where the invasion took place (codenamed Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno and Sword) but Omaha is known as the bloodiest of them all.Back then, the US Army stated that roughly two thousand people were killed, but historians nowadays think that number was closer to five and a half thousand.Shortly before the invasion, massive bombings of the German defenses was planned. For an hour, the US Air Force and the battleships cruising a few miles from there dropped huge amounts of bombs and shells on the coastline. That was supposed to anihilate any resistance from the Nazis. But it didn't quite go as planned. The USAF "precision bombings" weren't all that precise and at the end of that hour-long bombing run, the German defenses were totally intact.That's one thing. The other is that the Intel on which the decision of landing on Omaha beach was based on dated back to 1943. In the meantime, Rommel was appointed by Hitler to beef up the "Atlantic Wall" and that guy knew that the Allies were going to land there (fortunatly, no one else was on his side, thanks to the English deception plan that convinced the Germans the invasion would take place further East near Calais). So actually, the defenses near that beach were far stronger than the Allies thought they would be.If you add to that the fact that when landing, the soldiers had to cross a thousand feet long pre-sighted open sand area, you start to picture what a terrible disaster it could have been.And almost was in fact. The troops on the beach were pinned down by the machine guns and the many 88 and up cal. guns that were scattered all around, sometimes miles inland.The miracle happened when a five hundred men US Ranger group landed (that's a miracle because they were forced to go to "plan B" when another group who landed near the Pointe du Hoc came in late and failed to send the signal for them to go in too).These men (by another miracle) missed their landing zone, were able to cross the beach and took the Germans by their flank and from behind, allowing the first waves that were pinned down on Omaha to move. Unfortunatly, in the meantime, several thousand people had been killed on what is remenbered as "Bloody Omaha".

In 1944 I beleive...Allies of us crossed the English Channel and invaded Normandy, 5,300 ships and 11,000 ships followed right behind

None. Women did not serve aboard warships or with combat troops.

There were over 80,000 dead including Germans, Allies and civilians.

Juno beach by Canada

Omaha and Utah by the US

Gold and Sword by Britain

The Western Allies were able to reach Berlin at about the same time that the Soviets (Russians) did. Had the landing not been successful, the Russians (Soviets) may have taken the German Capital all by themselves. In which case, there might never have been a EAST and WEST Germany during the cold war.

This was Lt. Dennis Brotheridge of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. He had landed with his platoon in a glider at the Orne Bridge just after midnight. Preceding his men, Brotheridge challenged a German sentry on the bridge and was then shot down by a machine gun behind the German soldier, whom Brotheridge shot as he himself fell mortally wounded. This occurred at 0016 on the 6 th. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

This bridge, later known as Pegasus Bridge was recently copied and is at the D-Day Airborne Museum, Caen looking exactly as it did on June 6th.

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Latest figures for American casualties on D-Day show approximately 8,004 including the Airborne. Approximately 3,200 of these have so far been identified as dead. Accurate record keeping was very difficult to accomplish during that time, so figures change almost monthly

The invasion it self occured on 6 June 1944 - mid-July 1944. So it lasted around 1 month and 2 weeks.

The Allies win the war by securing the help of the US. This gave them a great numerical advantage over the Central Powers who had had the edge for most of the war.

I think they attacked Omaha Beach because the Allies think that's the only way they could push through Europe and into German soil to end the war machine, the Axis.

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HE IS WRONG There wer actually 5 beaches: Ohmaha, Utah, Sword, Juno, & Gold. These were all attacked in The Allies desperate hope to turn the war around, which was actually an unexpected victory for The Allies.

B. It allowed Allied forces to reduce Germany's hold on Europe.

D-day in Europe took place on June 6, 1944. The ground invasion began with the amphibious assault at Normandy, France.

(Extracted from the wikipedia article provided in the links) D-Day is a term often used in military parlance to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. "D-Day" often represents a variable, designating the day upon which some significant event will occur or has occurred; see Military designation of days and hours for similar terms. The initial D in D-Day has had various meanings in the past, while more recently it has obtained the connotation of "Day" itself, thereby creating the phrase "Day-Day".[1] By far, the best known D-Day is June 6, 1944 - the day on which the Battle of Normandy began - commencing the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II. However, many other invasions and operations had a designated D-Day, both before and after Operation Overlord. The terms D-Day and H-Hour are used for the day and hour on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. They designate the day and hour of the operation when the day and hour have not yet been determined, or where secrecy is essential. There is but one D-Day and one H-Hour for all units participating in a given operation. When used in combination with figures, and plus or minus signs, these terms indicate the point of time preceding or following a specific action. Thus, H−3 means 3 hours before H-Hour, and D+3 means 3 days after D-Day. H+75 minutes means H-Hour plus 1 hour and 15 minutes. Planning papers for large-scale operations are made up in detail long before specific dates are set. Thus, orders are issued for the various steps to be carried out on the D-Day or H-Hour minus or plus a certain number of days, hours, or minutes. At the appropriate time, a subsequent order is issued that states the actual day and times.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower who later became President lad the D-Day invasion. The President at that thime was President Franklin Delano Rooservelt (FDR).

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Orders given to assemble team to begin invasion plans on January 1943

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