What does RAF mean in World War 2?
An RAF pilot IS a member of the British Armed Forces serving in the Royal Air Force (RAF) with the duty and responsibility for flying military aircraft.
What role did Canadians play after d day?
Well they did assault Juno beach and manage to penetrate further into France than any other landing force. Also Juno beach was the second most heavily defended beach. Candian minesweepers also cleared mines in the waters near the beach before the landing to help landers reach the beach and there were Canadian Paratroopers Dropped into France I'm pretty sure to help liberate objectives before the main forces arrived.
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There were no Canadian paratroopers in Europe with the Americans Idiot
Why did the allies not advance through northern Italy into Austria instead of the D-day landings?
To transport the Allied forces based in England would have been a huge undertaking, crossing U boat lines and sailing all the way down the European coastline. Crossing the English channel was a tad easier being only 26 miles across. Thus, the logistics of attacking through the south of France or through Italy were impossible. The time and movement involved would have also alerted the Axis forces, which would have made such an attack extremely costly.
There were only a limited number of spots across the channel which were feasible. This could have also been very costly if the Axis had been certain that's what the allies would do. But clever manipulation of intelligence, involving a "secret" message on a British corpse, dummy battalions composed of wood and inflatable tanks, and fake message traffic, convinced the Axis that the landing would take place in the south of France, and that a fake landing would be aimed at Normandy. This was so convincing that when the landing actually happened, it was many hours before the German High Command was convinced that the Normandy landing was the real thing.
there is also the slight problem that to invade Spain or Italy they would have had to attack Africa and gain a foothold there first
How did D Day influence history?
The attack on Normandy Beach and all the other beaches affected the outcome, because Normandy was another way to get in to Europe and the allies needed another way in. After D-Day Germany had to take troops from the Eastern and send them to the West and although the soviets probably would have won it would have lasted a lot longer 3-5 years even.
What impact did D-Day have on the war and beyond?
D-Day gave the allies a way to use their over whelming number of men and mateial against the Germans. It also took the pressure off the Americans and the British from Stalin who was pressing for an allied breakthrough in the west so the Germans had to fight on two fronts and therefor ending the war just a little bit quicker. So, D-Day forced Hitler to move more troops to the western front from the eastern front and did effictivly end the war earlier than if the allies would had to push through Italy instead of catching the German homeland in two massive sized pincers
What were the British D-day plans?
Misdirection. Make the Axis powers believe that the attack is comming further north and on a different day. The Allies landed at Normandy. The Germans expected the invasion to occur at Pa-de-Calias, which is further East (or East-North-East). == The Allies landed at 5 beaches. They were to push inland and capture the towns and bridges that would prevent German re-inforcements from arriving. The Allied paratroopers went in early to assist in taking some of these key objectives early and hold for the infantry to arrive. After the Allies had secured the beaches and brought in re-inforcements, the Americans would move West to drive the Germans out of the pennisular and the British and Canadian would move east to take some of the major cities.
How many sailors and marines are entombed in the USArizona?
10102 men are still traped in the U.S.S Arizona
What equipment did the allies use on D-day?
The best was a group of tank based engineering vehicles called Hobart's Funnies. It include a variety of mine clearance vehicles, swimming tanks called DD's for the Duplex Drive it featured and bridgelayers. Another notable war machine was the. artificial harbor system called the Mulberry which was a series of concrete strutures built in England and towed across the Channel
How many US soldiers died at Normandy?
Now and then, construction work unearths bones and skeletons from soldiers. This happens fairly often," said Fritz Kirchmeier, a spokesman for the German organization that tends the 80,000 graves for German soldiers in Normandy. Casualty estimates for Allied forces vary, but range from 2,500 to more than 5,000 dead on D-Day. Adding to the confusion is that D-Day books and histories often count wounded, missing and troops taken prisoner. On its Web site, the D-Day Museum in Portsmouth, England, says an estimated 2,500 Allied troops died. The U.S. Army Center of Military Historyin Washington, D.C., numbers 6,036 American casualties, including wounded and missing. The Heritage Foundation in Washington estimates 4,900 dead. "It's very difficult to get accurate figures. People get buried. Bodies disintegrate. Evidence of the deaths disappeared. People drowned," said John Keegan, author of "Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris." He estimates 2,500 Americans and 3,000 other Allied troops died on D-Day. More than 19,000 civilians in Normandy also died in Allied bombing before and after D-Day to soften up German defenses. And Allied air forces lost nearly 12,000 men in April and May 1944 in operations ahead of the invasion, the D-Day Museum says. Even as the ranks of veterans who survived the assault and the push into Germany thin with time, work on tallying the dead continues. Carol Tuckwiller, director of research at the National D-Day Memorial Foundation in Bedford, Va., has spent four years combing through government, military and cemetery records for names of Allied dead on D-Day. She hopes to have a figure by next year. "We feel like we're probably going to end up with a total of about 4,500 fatalities for both the Americans and Allied countries. Right now, we have about 4,200 names confirmed," she said. "Of course we realize we may never be 100 percent complete."
How did colonel stauffenberg die?
Shot by firing squad after trying to assassinate Hitler.
He was immediately shot after his arrest, without a trial.
Who planned for the invasion of Normandy?
Dwight D Eisenhower. Sub commanders are Bradley for the US & Montgomery for the British.
The allies wanted the Germans to believe the invasion was to take place across the shortest channel crossing to Calais, France.
What age do you have to be to have a gun?
Federal law, 18 for long guns and 21 for hand guns.
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To buy a firearm in the US, above is correct. With the consent and presence of your parents, it is legal at most ages in most of the US.
What are big cities in okinawa?
Naha is the capital. Kadena city. Coza, Onna, Nago, Okinawa just to name a few.
What happened during d day in World War 2?
D Day was June 6, 1944, when operation Overlord, the invasion of Europe by the Allied Expeditionary forces against the German occupiers began. There are a number of movies that either tell this story or incorporate the story. They include D-Day, the 6th of June; Saving Private Ryan; and The Longest Day. There are others, but these are the ones that came to mind. The History Channel often has segments dealing with D-Day. The attack had to be held back for 24 hours.
D-Day was one of the largest naval invasions in history, conducted by the Allies during World War II. It took place on June, 6 of 1944. The assault was conducted in two parts: an air assault landing of British, American, Canadian and Free French troops, and an amphibious assault of Allied infantry and armored divisions on the coast of France, Normandy.
Why was D-Day a difficult battle?
The German army fortified many bunkers along the Normandy coast, placed many obstacles including land mines and large wooden poles to block ships from entering the beaches, built machine-gun nests, and had known an attack would occur sometime in the Summer.
the overall allied comander was US General Dwight David Eisenhower...........
The weapons used in the battle of Lexington?
The British most certainly used the .75 cal musket known as the Brown Bess. 1st and 2nd model land patterns dating from 1728 and 1760s. The colonists were diversely armed with muskets obtained by buying, stealing or bribing and muskets made in the colonies by the Committees of Safety and Fowlers that were common to farmers and sportsmen at the time. There were some Virginia riflemen armed with their Pennsylvania or Virginia made rifles which were far more accurate but slower to load than the muskets. The Shot Heard Round the World is rumored to have been fired from a Scottish pistol
Where did the allied forces meet the Germans in the Normandy?
The allied invasion of Normandy was met by heavy gunfire even as they were landing on the beach.
Codename for Normandy invasion?
According to a Wikipedia article, Operation Overlord was the codename for the Allied invasion of northwest Europe, and Operation Neptune was the assault phase of Overlord.
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-Josh
Where was the surprise attack from japan on the US?
Pearl Harbor. However, it is debatable whether the US government actually knew it was going to happen. That's the short answer anyway.
What battleships took part of D-Day invasion?
USS Texas shelled Pointe du Hoc.
I'll have to search for the others.