D-Day

The Germans lost somwhere between 3000 and 3300 troops. There where between 3000 and 3300 Germans that died on D-Day. To be honest I would like to know the source to the number of casualities on the German side. It would be nice if we refered to source when giving such information. There will always be a question of reliability to the answere when there is no reference to where the information come from.

Technically, there was no French president on D-Day: the French state was then called "l'état français" and led by the Maréchal Pétain (never elected as French president), while the provisional government who took over was not born.

Tech 5 was an enlisted rank in the US Army, the equivalent of a corporal. A Tech 5 wore on his sleeve two chevrons. like a corporal, but his had a large capital "T" below the chevrons. The pay was the same as a corporal, and the man was usually called "Corporal Smith" and not "Tech 5 Smith". "Tech" was short for technician, and the rank was given to men trained as specialists in various technical jobs, like radiomen, mechanics, and so on. The next step up was a Tech 4, the equivalent of a sergeant, with three chevrons with a T below.

Most people through out the world did NOT want a war. It was a neccessity at the time; something that had to be done.

Japanese leadership did not believe that the Americans were racially "pure" enough to endure their attack. They truly believed that we would just give up and let them take over the Pacific. The response from the Allied forces was far more than they expected. They believed that Germany would defeat the Allies in Europe, and that there would be little of the Allied military forces left to do battle in the Pacific. They learned what the U.S. and other Allied forces were capable of doing when the Japanese military effort was destroyed in every Pacific battle. They miscalculated again when they believed that the Allied forces would not be willing to occupy Japan. They wanted to force terms of surrender that would allow the Japanese military to remain intact and allow Japan to rebuild and take over the Pacific at a later time, after they had learned from their earlier mistakes. The Japanese military was willing to allow millions of Japanese citizens to die by sending them to their death, defending the Japanese beaches with pitchforks, swords and sticks against the invading Allied forces. The belief was that the Allies would not be willing to fight that battle and that the Japanese would remain soverign. Instead, the Allied forces were determined to win this war and never be required to fight it again. They had learned their lesson from Germany at the end of WW1 and vowed to make their enemy incapable of fighting at any time in the near future. Japan did not expect that reaction.

The D-Day invasion occurred in the region of France known as Normandy. The invasion beaches were given the code names Sword, Utah, Omaha, Gold, and Juno.

One of the objectives on D-Day was the city of Caen. However the city was not taken for over three months and was the scene of heavy fighting.

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The planned D-Day assault on the beaches of Normandy would be a complicated military operation. In order to prepare US troops and their commanders for this operation a beach in eastern England was chosen as a practice place for the invasion of Normandy. The English shoreline area that was chosen was considered to be almost a duplicate of the Utah Beach planned for the Normandy invasion. Due to failures in communications between British and American practice forces, approximately 1,000 US troops were killed by accidents during the practice assault.

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(or the equivalent in your own country).

Bayeux is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France. Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England.

They were the alliances formed by Germany, Italy, Japan, and several other Balkan countries (Axis) against USA, Britain, Russia, China, and host of other countries, Such as South Africa, Brazil, Canada, India, etc etc. there main goal was to... fight eachother? this is too broad of a question.

Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy in World War 2, in which the Allied invasion of France took place. General Dwight Eisenhower (United States) and British General Bernard Montgomery planned the invasion under this name, which later was known as D-Day.

June 6th was the day that the beachheads and most inland objectives were secured. Caen was taken on the 8th of August, which was the last objective for Operation Neptune. You can say the Falaise Pocket finished that invasion; it was closed by late August 1944. So to answer your question, about 1 1/2 months.

The United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Greece and a few others were on the Allies. They were all against Germany aka Nazi or The Axis. Those are the main people who fought in the Invasion of Normandy.

People could argue about a top 5 list until the cows come home. Lists tend to reflect the viewpoint of a person's country. For example, about two-thirds of European fighting was on the Soviet front, but British and US histories often gloss over this.

In the top twenty, I suggest the following might appear:

Fall of France 1940 (Germans routed British and French)

El Alemein (turning point for the war in Africa)

Fall of Singapore (Japanese routed British and Australians)

Siege of Leningrad

Siege of Moscow

Stalingrad (turning point on the Eastern Front)

The graves are not at the beach itself but are located in Normandy at a special graveyard. There are close to 40,000 graves the last I heard. I could be wrong because some families have transferred their loved ones to their own nation.

The US Army "Class A" uniform is the green one (Not dress blues) right? If so, medals are not worn on it- only ribbons representing the medals. They are worn on the wearer's left side, above the pocket, in order of precedence.

thunderbolt fighters, P51 fighters. B17 bombers and B25 Mitchell Bombers. Also, C47 cargo aircrafts to drop airborne troops. A follow up was made by Gliders with additional troops

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I assume you are asking about those used by the Allies.

C-46's were not used on D-Day. In addition to the ones listed above, the following aircraft took action as well:

Hawker Typhoon

Short Stirlings (Glider Tug)

Bristol Beaufighter

De Havilland Mosquito

Supermarine Spitfire

Hawker Tempest

Handley Page Halifax (Glider Tug & Bomber)

Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle (Glider Tug)

Grumman Hellcats (British Carrier)

Grumman Wildcats (British Carrier)

Grumman Avenger (British Carrier)

Fairey Swordfish

Vickers-Armstrongs Wellington (Coastal Command)

Lockheed P-38 Lightening

Boeing B-24 Liberator

Hawker Hurricane

Martin B-26 Marauder

Avro Lancaster

Douglas A-20 Havoc

Douglas A-26 Invader

Northrop P-61 Black Widow

Waco Glider

Airspeed Horsa Glider

General Aircraft Hamilcar Glider

There were also a number of other types that flew in support but did not directly participate, such as those flown by Coastal Command and various Liaison aircraft.

Normandy was invaded on June 6, 1944 by the allies.

There were 'only' 177 french soldiers involved in the first wave, landing on Sword Beach. The most famous of those soldiers is Commandant Philippe Kieffer who led the 1er Bataillon de Fusiliers-Marins Commando (1st Marine riflemen commando) fighting side by side with the British Green Berets . He was wounded twice this day.

== == Eisenhower, Bradley for the US & Montgomery for the British.

Only Normandy, France. But there were five beaches. Each Country had there own. Omaha, Utah (American) Gold (mixed) Juno, and Sword (British)

Note to the person who wrote this: Juno was for Canada, & Gold was strictly a mix Of British craft & many smaller units of Icelandic, Scottish, & Irish craft

The chronological order of these battles are: 1) The Battle of Britain, 2)Stalingrad, 3)D-Day' and 4) the Battle of the Bulge.