D-Day

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General Dwight 'Ike' Eisenhower, as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II was charged with planning and carrying out the Allied assault on the coast of Normandy under the code name Operation Overlord. The ultimate aim was the liberation of western Europe and the invasion of Germany. In the early hours of 6 June 1944, Allied forces began their assault against Hitler's "Fortress Europe", marking the beginning of D-Day in the largest amphibious assault ever launched. By the end of the day 155,000 Allied troops, including some 18,000 paratroopers and glider-borne troops, were in Normandy. The initial assault involved about 1,300 RAF planes, followed by 1,000 American bombers dropping bombs on targets in northern France.

The United States and Britain each lost about 1,000 troops whilst Canada lost 355 in the initial stages of D-day. The invasion cracked Nazi Germany's grip on Western Europe and marked the beginning of the advance that eventually ended the war with Germany. (source: www.today.wmit.net - June 6)

D-Day was important militarily and psychologically as it was seen as the real turning point of the war. Allied Armies back on the occupied soil of France meant a huge lift in morale -especially to the French ! Also, as very few wars can progress without soldiers being on the ground, this sudden invasion of huge numbers of Allied troops, with effective armour and artillery was devastating to the German occupation forces.

The war started with George McClellan and ended up with Ulysses S. Grant.

St. Joseph is the patron saint of a peaceful death.

The leader of the Free French was General Charles de Gaulle. I don't know when he landed, but it would not have been on D day.

No French Generals were active on D-Day. However, there were a small number of French paratroops and Commandos who landed on the 6 th June.

Kamikazes were Japanese suicide planes (around 1944-1945) whose pilots deliberately crashed themselves into Allied warships. Japan was faring poorly during the last year of World War II, and out of desperation, trained kamikaze pilots to try to hold off the Allied advance toward Japan. Although they caused a lot of damage, the kamikazes were ultimately unsuccessful in holding back the Allies.

On June 6, 1944 allied troops invaded the beaches of Normandy,France which was at the time under German control which was the beginning of end of world war 2 and the nazi control of Germany so essentially Germany was invaded on d-day

Hid behind trees, when the British army marched by, they were shot at. Then the Colonists ran away and didn't attack for another day or two. Or they shot, ran down the road a piece and fired again. Hit and run. (Shoot and run).

The invasion of Normandy on 06jun1944, known as Operation Overlord, was the beginning of the great Allied land drive which ultimately defeated Nazi Germany and ended WWII in Europe.

The 3 major forces in the assault were Great Britain, USA and Canada.

Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States and the general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany

It was to gain control of the beaches and land to about 8 miles in. Only the Canadians managed it on the 6th.

You got it all wrong. The Allies didn't want Japan. Japan started the war by aggressively attacking the countries surrounding it. The Allies grouped together to stop Japan and liberate the countries that were under Japanese control. The Allies were trying to force Japan to surrender and this looked as it might require an invasion of the Japanese islands.

dont listen to anything it says above. Japan was forced into the Picific War in order to create freedom. Japan violated now international laws or treaties.

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364 Canadians died on Juno Beach with 574 wounded and 47 taken prisoner.

On the second day of the invasion 11 Canadian prisoners of war were executed by the head of SS Hitler Youth. They are counted as casualties of D-day by some historians.

The Declaration on Liberated Europe stated that

Off the shore of Normandy beach their were over 500 boats over one hundred different types, their were also over 1,200 transport aircraft carrying the paratroopers

Hundreds of ways. to quote Sun Tzu (The Art of War) "All war is deception".

The allies employed dozens if not hundreds of deceptions for example: Pretending

that the landings would take place at Pais du Calle ( the shortest distance from Britain) by creating a false army using inflatable dummy tanks and vehicles presumably commanded by Gen. Patton. By sending false intel from captured German spies, like Garbo, inferring that Normandy was only a feint. By getting intel from broken axis codes.By building the floating bridge work to off load heavy weapons and material. And those are just a few examples.

Find a weakness in German defenses and take over Dieppe.

The reasons were primarily political. Stalin harassed Churchill to open a war in Western Eupore and relieve pressure from Russia, lest Russia seek a separate peace with Germany......in which case the bulk of the German war machine would be free to fight Great Britain. Rather than mount a large invasion which might fail, it was decided to send a smaller force to capture and hold Dieppe, one of the channel ports on the French coast. Only seven regiments would be committed, and no warships other than destroyers. Thus, if the operation failed (which it did), not much would be lost, and it would still be a gesture of support to the USSR from Great Britain.

the short answer is yes. if we didn't establish a beachhead. then the war would have most lkely have expanded to mainland gb. that would have given hitler complete control of the water. and most likely the war.

D- day was when the people in the ghettos celebrated because they heard d-day on the radio that some one would help the people in the ghettos

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The ghettos had been 'liquidated' long before D-Day; they no longer existed.

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One was used to end the other.

Hitler was convinced the Allies would land in the Pas De Calais area near Dunkerque (Dunkirk) France.

The allies had tricked him into believing it. They set up phony military equipment on the shores opposite to Calais to make Hitler think they were building up forces to attack at Dunkerque. They sent phoney messages that the the Nazis listened to and believed. They also sent a bogus force of army people to Norway. This deception was called Operation Fortitude. See link below.

Hitler was convinced the Allies would never land in Normandy where there were no shipping piers. He would not guess the allies would bring their own piers. When they did land at Normandy he said that landing force was a prelude to the main forces coming to Calais. He failed to understand the forces at Normandy WAS the main landing - the Brits and Americans had tricked him immensely.

For the most part, it was the German High Command, not Hitler, who expected an invasion of France to be at the Pas De Calais.

The invasion of Normandy ended when the German units retreated across the River Seine. So the battle of Normandy ended when the Germans retreated east towards Germany.