D-Day

There were approximately 840 British deaths on Sword. The Germans had over 1,000 casualties, but it is unclear how many died.

Like most of the French coastlike, Juno Beach started as a result of continetnal drift, the effects of glaciation, and soil erosion.

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Omaha Beach was one of the designated landing beaches in Normandy France during WWII. Omaha Beach was the code name for one of the main landing points of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on June 6 1944, during World War II. The beach was located on the northern coast of France, facing the English Channel, and was 5 miles (8 km) long, from (coming from the sea) east of Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes to west of Vierville-sur-Mer on the right bank of the Douve river estuary. Landings here were necessary in order to link up the British landings to the east with the American landing to the west at Utah beach, thus providing a continuous lodgement on the Normandy coast of the Bay of the Seine.

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These countries participated in the Normandy Invasion. United Kingdom

United States

Canada

Free French Forces

Free Polish Forces

Australia

Free Belgian Forces

New Zealand

Netherlands

Norway

Free Czechoslovak Forces

Greece

The D Day landings took place on 5 separate beaches on the northern coast of France.

The American beaches, UTAH and OMAHA, were the western beaches because that allowed their direct re-supply from America without crossing the sea lanes of the re-supply to GOLD the British beach, JUNO the Canadian beach and SWORD the Allied beach. The landings on SWORD were mainly of British forces but it is known as the Allied beach because 'Free' forces such as the French under Commandant Kieffer, landed in the area. The gaps between the beaches were filled by Special Forces such as Commandos and Rangers and at each end of the landings, ie. around UTAH and SWORD, airborne forces were used to stop the Germans attacking the landings from the flanks.

The landing scenes in 'Saving Private Ryan' depict the landings of A Company, 1st Battalion, 29th Divison which had been recruited from the small town of Bedford in Virginia, 23 of whom were lost on D Day. They landed on OMAHA just below where the 29th Division Memorial now stands on an old German bunker.

In total the casualties on OMAH were the greatest of all of the beaches.

9,387 The cemetery at Omaha Beach contains the graves of 9,387 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. On the Walls of the Missing in a semicircular garden on the east side of the memorial are inscribed 1,557 names. Note that more soldiers were buried here during the war, but after the war the government offered to transport any soldier back to the US upon the request of their family. Normandy American Cemetery sits on a cliff overlooking Omaha Beach and the English Channel, east of St. Laurent-sur-Mer and northwest of Bayeux in Colleville-sur-Mer, 170 miles west of Paris. This is the cemetery that was shown in the opening and ending scenes of the movie "Saving Private Ryan". See Link

Major General David Belchem, head of Montgomery's Operations Staff, says in his book Victory in Normandy that he chose 'Gold', 'Sword', and 'Juno', "from an Army pamphlet which gave a list of code names that could be understood without any risk of confusion against a background of heavy radio interference,between operators with accents ranging from Texas to Glasgow,"and that Major General J. Lawton Collins, the VII Corps commander, chose Utah and Major General Leonard T. Gerow, Omaha for V Corps."

The US had used a color coded system but followed the British lead and developed a code book designed to not conflict with the British code. Names from these lists were randomly assigned for use in the various theaters. There is no real "meaning" or relevance to the names. In fact, Churchill said that names selected should not be names that would give anything away but should still dignify any loss of life- no mother would want to hear that her son died in operation Ballyhoo. Churchill in fact named Overlord, it was originally called Roundhammer.

A bit of undoubtedly untrue apocrypha; the British beaches were to be named after different kinds of fish. The original name of the Canadian beach was going to be "Jelly" - as in jellyfish. Canadian officials convinced their British counter-parts that such a designation was kind weird in Canada where "jelly" means JAM and so it was changed to a more acceptable "JUNO". I say that's a bunch of ballyhoo! But the name Juno is a bit odd considering Churchill's security concerns as it is so similar to June, the month of the invasion.

Chances are the names were chosen before the exact where and when were determined. The name Juno would be the name of the Canadian's beach, regardless of which actual beach was finally chosen. The beaches themselves, and there were dozens considered,were given other code names during the initial planning right up until the final 5 were chosen, that would have further confused any espionage efforts by the Germans.

Jelly fish? Jelly do-nut? Try to deal with the Germans and ya wind up in a jam.

American troops landing at Omaha Beach suffered heavy casualties because the coast was strongly defended. Also they had lost much of their armoured support as the Sherman DD tanks were launched too far out to sea and many sank.

In the end, Allied troops did succeed in penetrating the defenses.

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Omaha Beach was the worst because of the terrain. Immediately back of the beach were high bluffs on which the defenders were situated in pillboxes and other fortifications, overlooking the beach. Assaulting troops had to make an amphibious landing, which is difficult even when the enemy is not present, and immediately attack high ground, which is also difficult. And the direction of their attack was completely predictable - they would be coming from the direction of the sea. The other beaches had more typical coastal terrain, with low land being immediately behind the beaches. The terrain at Omaha was the worst from the attackers point of view along the entire fifty miles of the assault area, and this was recognized before hand, but the planners could find no alternative.

there were 5. utah, omaha, sword, gold and juno all in France.

*^ More specifically, those beach-heads were spread out over 60 miles in the Normandy region of France, which is the North-west of France that was directly across the English Channel from Britain.

the Germans WWII invasion is western Europe frightened the population and angered them as well

To provide an open allied European supply port.

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Churchill had proposed an attack of Europe by going up through Italy and into Austria. He called this the "soft underbelly of Europe". Originally, some of the planners thought this would take about a year to get into Germany by that route.

However, it soon became obvious that this would not work. The Allied advance up the "boot" of Italy was stalled for 6 months at the mountains south of Rome. Then there was another mountain range to cross before getting to the Alps. Hitler selected General Kesselring because he proposed to defend Italy at every mountain to delay the Allies advance. Whereas General Rommel had proposed pulling back to the Po Valley. Kesselring was selected to command the HQ South and the Allied advance was slowed considerably.

The Allies continued the Italian Campaign in order to put pressure on the Germans which would help out the Russians fighting on their front. The planners determined the most direct path into Germany would be to land in Northern France and move across the Rhine. This would also have the added benefit of liberating France.

During World War II, the 'D-Day' invasion of Normandy (France) on June 6, 1944, was important for many reasons. Perhaps above all, it represented the Allies' attempt to open the long-awaited Second Front in the European Theater, which would both bring relief to the Soviet armies on the Eastern Front and bring the free world one step closer to defeating Hitlerite Germany.

Eight men -- seven Rangers and one interpreter -- searched for paratrooper James Ryan (Matt Damon) in Steven Spielberg's 1998 Oscar-winning World War II drama. They were: Capt. John H. Miller (Tom Hanks), Sgt. Mike Horvath (Tom Sizemore), Pfc. Richard Reiben (Edward Burns), Pvt. Adrian Caparzo (Vin Diesel), Pvt. Daniel Jackson (Barry Pepper), Tech. 4th Grade Irwin Wade (Giovanni Ribisi), Pvt. Stanley Mellish (Adam Goldberg), and Tech 5th Grade Timothy Upham (Jeremy Davies).

Eisenhower was the one who organized the D-day invasion. then there were plenty of generals under him that actually went. but there was no specific general

A D-Name in Pixie Hollow means a unique name like twistedthicket or in real life it means your first and last name. But check the dictionary because im not so sure. Im sure about the pixie hollow thing beacuse i play it.:)

St Lo is about 20 km ( 12 miles) south of the D-Day Normandy beaches

Casualties and Losses of the Invasion of Normandy 1944 German: Between 4,000 and 9,000 dead, wounded, or captured U.S.: 1,465 dead; 5,138 wounded, missing, or captured

U.K.: 2,700 dead, wounded or captured; Canada: 500 dead; 621 wounded or captured

Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword. Yes, that is 5 code names for 5 beaches.