D-Day

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.

AAmerican troops famously 29th infantry battalion. British troops including lord Lovats commando Canadian troop Winnipeg Rifle rifles free french

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.

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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.

By the landing by sea and air of the combined Allied forces of Britain, Canada and the United States on the beaches of Normandy in France.

D Day is just a codename for the day selected, and is used to describe the landing time, not the name of a battle.

none. at that time there were no french troops under arms. The Free French consisted of partisan/guerrilla units that caused havoc by cutting supply lines and attacking German forces attempting to reach Normandy to stop the allied invasion forces............

General Dwight David Eisenhower..........allied commander

Most of the soilders went on to the beach by using landing craft. The craft carried them from the ships to the beaches. once at the beach a ramp would drop on the front of the boat and the troops would run from the craft onto the beach.

Also, three full divisions (two American, and one British-Canadian) were dropped in by air.

Some of the bravest of the bunch came ashore hours before the mass landings in rubber boats. These men were combat engineers and they had the job of clearing mines and obstacles that would wreck the landing craft. Some of the combat engineer companies experienced 75% killed in action.

A few days after D-Day, several different types of temporary piers and docks were put in place to allow larger vessels to bring in heavier cargo.

The invasion of Europe via Normandy was called Operation: Overlord.

V-E Day during world war two was Victory in Europe day, the day the war in Europe ended which was in 1945 after Russian forces entered Berlin, Hitler went into his secret bunker, poisoned his new wife Eva braun, and shot himself.

The first day of summer (on or about June 21 in the Northern Hermisphere) is the longest day of the year, meaning the most hours of sunlight. From there, each day is a little bit shorter until you come to the shortest day, the first day of winter (on or about December 21). Then they start getting longer again.

The first day of summer is called the Summer Solstice, and the first day of winter is called the Winter Solstice.

The war was found as several different conflicts around the world. The common thread was that the Allies (US, Britain, Australia, Canada, USSR, Free French) were fighting the aggression by the Axis (Germany and Italy in Europe, and Japan in Asia and the Pacific).

The progression of war in Europe began with the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. In 1940, German forces overran Belgium and France and the British army narrowly escaped by its retreat at Dunkirk. Britain itself came under a concerted German air attack. Following the entry of the US into the war in December, 1941, the Allies advanced across northern Africa and then to Italy as the Axis forces were pushed back. After a major landing at Normandy in June 1944, France was retaken and Germany itself was invaded. This took place during continual air attacks on German troops and factories throughout Europe.

On the Russian Front, the Soviets were overpowered by the initial German attack in 1941, but over four winters took the offensive and drove to Berlin by April, 1945. As the war in Europe neared its end, Mussolini was killed in Italy, and Hitler committed suicide.

In the Pacific, Japan had seized much of western China after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937). Japan consolidated its grip on Indochina and captured most of the island groups of the western Pacific. After attacking Pearl Harbor on December, 1941, and occupying the Philippines, they faced naval and amphibious assaults by US fleets for the next three years. The Japanese advanced into India and Burma and were opposed by Commonwealth forces there. Moves to attack New Guinea and Australia were repulsed, and soon Japan's war resources were mostly exhausted. Bombings of Tokyo and other cities began in 1944, and in August 1945 two atomic bombs were used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Within days, Japan faced the destruction of their army in Manchuria by the Russians, and finally capitulated. The official surrender took place on September 2, 1945.

Canada was part of the British Commonwealth so it fought with British and the Allies.

It's enemy were Germany, Italy and Japan. Besides commando raids and the Dieppe raid, the Canandians first went into combat in Sicily and Italy as part of the 1st Canadian Division. Custermen