D-Day

Operation Torch.

The Canadians and United Kingdom lost 340 man and 739 other casualities the Germans losted many more.

• Omaha, Gold, Sword, Juno and Utah were the code names for the beaches
• Neptune was the code name for the initial landing plan
• Operation Overlord was the name of the Normandy Invasion Campaign.
• The codes were used so the Germans would not figure out what the Allied Forces were talking about or discussing on telegraphy air waves.
• The Americans landed on Omaha beach and took a beating. Thousands were killed on that beach.
• They also landed on Utah beach without the major casualties.

On 7th December 1941 (surely you must know this) carrier borne planes of the Imperial Japanese Navy bombed the American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor and destroyed many aircraft and sank battleships which were moored in the harbour. Unbeknown to the Japanese, the American carrier carrier fleet had left on a training mission and was therefore undamaged. Japan declared war on the US at the same time as the raid and the US responded appropriately. So the answer to your question must be that the USA was fighting for lost pride and revenge.

The Germans didn't surrender on D Day. The Allied forces had to fight their way through France and the rest of Europe. Hilter wanted to keep the fighting going so badly he put young boys on the front lines at the end of the war, but when the Russians went into Berlin he knew that it was over. This was over a year later after the D Day landings.

Amphibious tanks were used to 'swim ' ashore from ships, but were limited in performance and could not stand large waves. Almost all the tanks at Omaha sank because the landing ships launched them too far out in heavy sea.

One officer who did not command any D Day forces was Officer T. A. Mahoney. General McArthur and Admiral Fletcher also did not command forces on that day.

On 22 June 1941 when three million German, Finnish, Romanian, and Hungarian soldiers attacked the whole length of the Soviet western frontier.

If they were painted at all, it was mostly olive drab, a type of dark green. By that point in the war many were unpainted aluminum, with only insignia and squadron markings painted on.

But on the morning of June 6 all Allied aircraft had a type of new paint job. These were "invasion stripes" - three broad white stripes around each wing and the fuselage, between the cockpit and the tail. This was so Allied aircraft could easily be identified. But there were very few enemy aircraft operating near the invasion beaches that day.

On the ground, the Soviet Union. The Western Allies allowed this because the city fell into the Soviet demarcation zone for postwar Germany, stopping their armies on the Elbe instead of racing the Red Army to Berlin. The Soviets entered Berlin on April 23, 1945, and conquered the city by May 2nd.

Truman had no idea the atomic bomb was being developed. He was not even vice president when president Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the development of the atomic bomb on October 9, 1941 after a meeting with Vannevar Bush and then vice president Henry A. Wallace. At this time the United States was not even officially involved in WW2. Truman was first informed of the development of the atomic bomb by secretary of war Henry L. Stimson shortly after Franklin D. Roosevelt died in April 1945 only months before the first atomic bomb was tested. Effectively the atomic bomb was already completely developed before Truman was even aware of it, all that remained to be done was proof testing and combat use (and Franklin D. Roosevelt had already put the military wheels in action before his death for selection of target cities in Japan, although this selection process was not complete until late May 1945).

There were concentration camps in the Holocaust. The concentration camps were basically work/death camps.

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D-Day was the Allied invasion of Normandy in order to push back the Germans and free France from German rule. It was significant because it was one of the largest battles of World War II, with troops from the United States, Britain, Canada, and freed forces from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and more. Although the Allies suffered the most casualties of any WWII battle and the Germans were at a superior position, D-Day turned out to be a huge success and allowed the Allies to advance to Paris and free France.

US Military: Operation Urgent Fury (1983).

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The Nazis thought the Allied Forces would invade at the Calais point of France. They were only partially prepared for them to land in Normandy and they certainly did not expect the force to be so large and impressive. Rommel, their commander was absent and this created chaos amongst the German soldiers. Within months the Allied Forces had been victorious in France and other places. The Generals realized the war was lost. Hitler however lived in denial.

After almost 2 years of planning Allied troops composed mostly of British, American and Canadian soldiers mounted the worlds largest ever combined operation. This involved over 175,000 soldiers landing on the coast of Normandy by ship, parachute and glider. These men were armed with tanks and artillery and made a significant beach head on the first day. Landings kept happening after this first day and by the end of June the Allied forces had almost a million men ashore in France pushing the ill-prepared German armies back.

The summer solstice.

The Normandy Invasion of the Allied Forces to arrive in Normandy, France. It was called Operation Overlord. It consisted of many nation's forces. There were over 6000 ships and boats. There were thousands of planes and millions of people who landed by sea or by air (parachuted or air glided) on the shores and coast line of Normandy. They were able to defeat the Germans in that area and in less than a year they defeated the Nazis completely.

According to the USS Arizona historical site (link below) there are currently 19 known survivors (18 Navy, 1 Marine) still alive as of April 26, 2011. There are approximately a dozen others who are unaccounted for that may or may not still be alive.

The Allies tricked Hitler by having a French merchant ship drop a dead body with plans of a fake invasion to take place far west of Normandy and on high tide the body was dropped by the Normandy coast and floated to shore and was found by the Germans and delivered to Hitler and he moved a large group of his men to that point and left the rest at Normandy witch was still a lot of Germans and payed little attention to Normandy.

Hitler was taken by surprise and could not move his troops to Normandy and waited still thinking that there was an immanent invasion witch would never come. The Allies lost many men and the number would have been worse if the deception trick did not work. We should always be thankful that there were and still are people like that so willing to fight for what they believe in and to fight for other countries and for the United States of America these men were and will always be Heros.