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D-Day
History of the Allied landing on Normandy on 6 June 1944 and the following campaign to take Cherbourg and break out of the beach head.
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How many guns are in the army?
there are a lot of guns in the army and the Pentagon makes more every day some more advanced then the others in case some are stolen... The Pentagon does not make guns.
What tactics were used during D-Day?
The planning for "Operation Overlord" the invasion of France, involved many new tactics, some of which were the use of glider bourne troops, combined with parachutists to land behind the beaches under cover of darkness, to seize key points, such as bridges or road junctions. This was an ALL ARMS operation, which means that each of the air land and sea elements had to work together, to acheive sucess. This required many new ways of working that hadn't been tried before, such as the beach masters who controlled the un-loading of men and supplies, much like traffic cops at an intersection. A whole range of speciallised armoured vehicles were developed to deal with specific problems, such as the "flail tank" that cleared mine fields, or the flamethrower tank that attacked concete bunkers at close range. Another new tactic was having artillery guns firing from their landing craft as they closed in to the beach. By doing this, the artillery units contributed to their own sucessfull landings. Overhead, the airforces were flying two types of sorties, one to attack specific targets on the ground, the other as "on-call" fire support for the troops who needed it. Finally, the rapid re-inforcement of sucessfull units was a new tactic that required local commanders to be quick and keep up the pace of battle even at night. For more information, see Related Links.
How many Canadians died fighting ww11?
42,042 Canadians died fighting WW2. As well as 1,148 Canadian merchant seamen were killed.
source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Canada_during_the_Second_World_War
Who was the Allied Commander who directed the D- Day invasion?
Dwight D Eiesenhower of the US was in overall command. His main subordinates were Omar Bradley of the US & Bernard Montgomery for the British. Eisenhower emerges as a good, diplmatic leader.
When did the battle of D-day end?
D-Day was a day, not a battle. It was the day (June 6, 1944) that Canada, U.S. and Britain launched the invasion of Normandy. After that day, until the final German surrender on May 8, 1945, Allied forces were in continuous combat with the Germans.
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What was the victory day over japan in world war 2?
The USA dropped atom bombs on Hiroshomia and Nagaskai; and Russia declared war on Japan. Japan was a country where surrender was considered a "loss of face", but the atomic bombs and Russia convinced Japan to surrender.
Where did the allied forces first invade axis controlled Europe?
They came into Normandy on the beaches of France and then worked their way up into the rest of Europe. This is what is called "D Day." A good example of what happened is the HBO series Saving Private Ryan.
Why was Omaha Beach the hardest to conquer for the allies?
the beach was very hard to take because the barriers were not cleared and there was not any of the tanks there. The German army also had the beach covered with heavy machine guns.
What was the allies plan for victory over the Nazis?
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How many Vietnam soldiers died on their first day?
Try: Statistics About The Vietnam War. Recommended by the History Channel.
What is the codename for the beach where the allied landed on D-day?
Actually there were five beaches that the Allies landed on in the D-Day operation:
Utah: American
Omaha: American
Juno: Canadian
Gold: British
Sword: British
What had the Allies done to interrupt German defese of Normandy?
They had landed directly on enemy controlled beaches about 200 miles southeast from where the Germans were expecting them. -Even after the invasion started, the German high Command were convinced it would happen at Calais.
Why do you think the d-day landing were made on the beaches instead of at established harbors?
Because beaches allowed for the landing crafts to take soldiers as close as possible to land. The main Ports of Calais and Cherbourg were heavily fortified and defended and thus too difficult to assault. A lesson that was learned from the Dieppe Raid.
Securing the beaches allowed for fast and efficient unloading of men and equipment imperative to repel and German counter attack which could scuttle the invasion.
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VE-Day stood for Victory in Europe. V-J Day was Victory over Japan.
Until more "discoveries" are made; the first recorded casualty was in 1956.
Did Harry Truman make the right decision dropping the atomic bombs on japan in 1945?
The use of the bomb was an alternative to Operation Downfall, an all-out Allied invasion of Japan, and effectively saved millions of Americans, and Japanese. Plus the atomic bomb actually killed less people than conventional bombing raids of Tokyo. Many argue additionally that through the destruction caused by the use of both bombs it created a stigma that became associated with nuclear weapons, which arguably may have resulted in their non-use throughout the entire Cold War. The theory says that no nukes have been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki because no one knew how destructive they really were. Thus the atomic bombs actually saved (or potentially saved) other lives that would have been lost had Russia or the U.S. first used WMDs in the Cold War which assuredly would have triggered MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) in which both countries would have engaged in retaliatory strikes against the other.
Also if you are really into this topic Alperovitz's book is probably one of the best guides out there, be warned it is very lengthy: There is no concrete answer to this question as everyone has an opinion. My opinion is that the decision to use the atomic bomb(S) was a proper one. As answer 1 says, the use of the atomic bomb saved months of time [possibly years, depending on the "hard-headedness" of the Japanese military high command, upon who's word the Emperor made decisions], and allied lives [probably MILLIONS more].
It also SAVED MILLIONS OF JAPANESE lives [BOTH military and CIVILIAN] which would have been lost if the Allies had had to spend months [or years] pounding the Japanese MAINLAND into submission using conventional bombing, and eventual invasion.
The Japanese people had been so "pumped up" with nationalistic fervor, that the civilian population would have fought to the bitter end with pitch forks and other implements, resulting the loss of untold millions MORE JAPANESE lives than occurred from the use of the atomic bombs.j3h.
Answer 3I totally disagree with the droppings of both bombs and from reading the history I found it was simply "over-kill." Fire bombs could have been dropped. Trueman's reasons were extremely questionable (to this day) and his own Aides had a problem with this decision.As far as the above poster saying that also many Japanese lives were saved that's so untrue. Even to this day the droppings of the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have left a gene pool to this day of disfigurement in civilians. I hope this never happens again!
Answer 4 -The Truth- Less civilians died from the atomic bombs than from the firebombings that preceeded. The population was being instructed to resist to the death of every man, woman, and child. If the atomic bombs had not convinced the Japanese leaders to surrender, there would be no Japanese culture today.
- The low-end estimate of the number of Allied casualties in a full-scale invasion was 1 million. Perhaps your own father or grandfather was scheduled to be transfered from Europe to the Pacific to take part in this invasion. What would you think if he had died when Truman had access to a method of ending the war without another American casualty?
When was d-day the invasion of Normandy begin?
Tuesday, June 6th, 1944. See the Wikipedia weblink below.
What German defenses did the Allies face on D-Day?
There were also inland defenses. The German army flooded fields (to drown paratroopers, this worked very well) they also had the natural defenses of the Normandy hedgerows, these proved weaknesses in the allied tanks and perfect for ambushes.
on the beaches there were AT mines, tank spikes and holes dug into the beach (a fully equipt soldier would drown in these, the british did this in fear of a German invasion)
These defenses were so good that even the preliminary bombardment by the air forces and naval forces couldn't dislodge the defenders as planned
ANSWERSpecifically, the defence of the Normandy coast was provided by the German 7th Army and the 5th Army located around Caen. The surf line was ridden with all sorts of contraptions such as wooden poles with naval mines on top, X shaped iron hedges, "Belgian gates" (iron A frames meant to stop landing craft), AT and anti-personnel mines and barbed wire.The overhangs were indeed defended from concrete bunkers and machine-gun nests of which many had survived the initial air and naval bombardment, especially on the American landing beaches, and further inland there were flooded marshes and artillery positions.
One particular defence was 'Rommels Asparagus', spikes designed to impale paratroops.
