D-Day

Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Free French forces, Polish exile regiments, plus regiments and individuals from many occupied nations such as Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Norway.

The Allies won . They secured the 5 beaches and advanced inland

On June 6, 1944, a united force of British, American, Canadian and others made the assault on the French Coast. At this time in the war, the German war machine had all but controlled the entire continent in Europe. The Allies knew that the only chance they had at actually winning the war was to gain a foothold somewhere in Europe. In order to do this, It had to be an area that could be easily defended from both German land forces, and the terrifyingly powerful German U-Boat fleet. Naval Forces knew that any area that was to be supplied needed to be well guarded, as the U-Boats could, and would destroy any supply ships at open sea, and they knew that it was vital to protect them as they neared the coast, as it was extremely difficult to escape a U-Boat attack when cornered against land. Thus, an area of the French Coast was designated as the beach head, and with its close proximity to the British Coast, it was an ideal option. The narrow stretch of ocean between England and fortress Europe meant that U-Boats would have to enter a "lion's den" of naval defensive forces to even get a chance to attack supply ships. Also, several small towns connected by a major roadway would aid in the defense of the beachhead.

Very much. The Germans didn't know where the Allies would land, but they knew there would be one and when they did it was bloody and fierce. If you saw the movie D Day you get a "feeling" for what the men who landed on Normandy beach faced. It was something that is hard to talk about and describe for the veterans of that day.

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Chief among the detractors of the attack on the U.S. was the man in overall charge of the operation, Admiral Yamamoto. He knew that the attack would only buy him some time to do what he wanted in the Pacific but that eventually the U.S. would hit them like the proverbial ton of bricks (that's my interpretation :) However, he was duty and honor bound to support his government and ultimately his emperor in their endeavours.

Yamamoto himself said " I feel as if we have awakened a sleeping giant."

Some people speculate that if the Japanese had sent in the fourth wave of attacks, designed to destroy the petroleum storage tanks at Ford Island, that the Japanese would have gained even more time in their efforts to conquer the Pacific Rim.

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i think the top three things the vikings traded were women, slaves and food!

The original date of May 1, 1944 was pushed back to allow for a much large force over a much larger area of the coast. The date tentatively set was June 4, although that was jeopardized by a disastrous attack during a rehearsal along the English coast on April 28.

There was another 2-day delay for bad weather on June 4. This would have made the crossing difficult and the landings impossible. Timing also had to allow for the tides, so that the beaches could have the proper water depth for the landing craft. Fortunately, the forecast was for a slight clearing on June 5, which gave the landing some element of surprise, as the stormy weather was followed abruptly by clear weather. The day-long assault by planes, ships, and landing craft was successfully completed on June 6, 1944.

See the attached link for the full story of the 101st Airborne in World War 2. One link has a list of the supplies they packed in their backbacks.

During WWII, women in the United States went to work in the defense industry because the men were off fighting the war. They left the kitchen for the aircraft assembly line. They did many of the jobs that men did - they riveted, packed munitions, learned to pilot and trained others to pilot. When he war was over, most went back to housewife, but many others did not. American women had learned to go to work.

the Normandy beaches assaulted by the allies on D day were:

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No. Pearl Harbor was obviously Pearl Harbour while D-day refers to the landing achieved by Allied troops on the shores of Normandy during the second World War D-day can also, however, refer to a day of signifigant importance or reckoning. Pearl Harbor can be referred to as A D-day, but not as THE D-day

D-Day itself lasted basically the entire 24 hours of June 6, 1944. Paratroopers and glider-borne troops began landing around midnight, as June 6 arrived. The seaborne component started landing on the beaches at dawn. The five landing beaches were spread out over more than fifty miles of French coastline, in Normandy. Fighting somewhere or other in the beachhead went on all day.

The campaign in Normandy lasted about another nine weeks. The Germans brought up troops from all over to contain the Allies, who continued to pour in more men over the beaches. Eventually the Germans had committed practically all their forces in France south of the Seine River. The Germans continued to believe that the Normandy landings were just a gigantic diversionary attack, and that the REAL landings would soon come north of the Seine River, and so kept very large forces out of the fight for Normandy, north of the Seine, awaiting this attack which never came. US forces "broke out" of the beachhead in late July, through the town of St Lo, with General George Patton's newly activated Third Army leading. Part of Patton's command turned right and headed west to liberate the Brittany peninsula; the rest went left - east - and hooked around behind the Germans still in line facing the British and Canadians. This last move created the "Falaise Pocket", as the Germans facing the British and Canadians began to try to flee eastward on the only road available, which ran through the town of Falaise. Allied fighter-bombers ravaged the German vehicles attempting to avoid being surrounded (if the pocket were closed) by fleeing down this road. Some German soldiers did get away, but mostly on foot, without their tanks, without their trucks, and without their artillery. The "failure" of the Allies to "close the Falaise Pocket" and bag all these Germans is still controversial. The Germans who got away were in no way equipped to make another strong stand anywhere in France, and within a few more weeks basically all of France was liberated, with Paris being freed around August 25.

If the question refers to the French resistance at Normandy in 1944, yes, they helped a great deal. Eisenhower credited them with saving a division's worth of Allies through their sabotage against the Germans and the information they provided.

It was going good i mean because they fought alot and defeated alot of other armies

By taking the beach at Normandy the allies were able to march into Paris and free it from the Nazis.

The question is pretty simple. Jews were the ones targeted specifically throughout the Holocaust. When invasions arrived, they were to be rounded up first and sent to ghettos and then transferred to concentration/extermination camps. Life was really hard for them in Europe while Hitler was in control, but they were persecuted and hated centuries ago.

Every country that was involved in the invasion used every weapon available to them. The standard weapons for a "typical" company would be rifles, carbines for Sargent's, mortar men, etc. sidearms for officers, crew served weaponeers, 60 & 80 MM mortars, medium machine guns, submachine guns, grenades, satchel charges.

the Americans used an assortment of weapons including m1 grands ,tomphson sub machine guns and other known as greaseguns and the springfeild sniper rifle and also the b.a.r browing gun

Combat rations which were known as C-Rations. An example might be canned ham and beans, canned apricots, crackers with peanut butter, and a pouch containing; gum, hard candy, instant coffee, toilet paper, salt, pepper, napkin, plastic spoon, sugar, matches, and a package of four cigarettes.

one of the main things is the Germans didn't know were the attack was going to be, the allies tricked them to think they were going to attack Calais's, but they attacked Normandy, operation overlord was a big success and was one of the main battled that won the war.

The Battle of Leyte Gulf-- October 23 to October 26, 1944

The United States 3rd and 7th Fleets, including some Australian warships, comprised 8 large aircraft carriers, 24 light/escort carriers, 12 battleships, 24 cruisers, 141 destroyers, many other ships, and around 1,500 aircraft. They won a decisive victory over Japanese forces, which consisted of four aircraft carriers, nine battleships, 19 cruisers, 34 destroyers and several hundred aircraft. The opposing fleets carried a total of about 200,000 men.

The largest naval battle in pre-modern times would be the Battle of Lepanto, 7 October 1571, between the Holy League (Spain, Italy, and several other powers) and the Ottoman Empire. Approximately 450 ships were involved, with around 50,000 men.

The Germans thought the attack was going to occur farther along the coast at Calais because this was the shortest route by sea (Dover â Calais), even when the attack began on the beaches Hitler was still convinced the attack was going to occur at Calais. False intelligence spread by the allies spread false information to the Germans. Wooden guns on the South Coast of England, wooden planes, dropped plastic dummies out of planes, they put mirrors up on their ships and the Germans were fooled as they saw themselves going the other way. New technology specifically designed for the landing enabled the Allies to gain an advantage over the Germans. Mulberries, the floating docks the Allies used to land, enabled the Allies to land safely and disembark while firing. On some beaches no resistance was encountered while landing, this enabled the Allies to disembark easily, however, on Omaha beach the Allies suffered heavy losses numbering 2000 in total. D-day had been planned for many years and so all the plans were ready. The Germans had to keep control of the other parts of their empires and so were using troops elsewhere in Europe. The Italian attack and simply keeping control of all their land made it harder for Germany. Hitler denied that his forces were losing in Normandy, and would not authorize the mobilization of the large reserve forces stationed near Normandy.
* The troops involved were highly trained, equipped and motivated. * The battle plan was well prepared. * The manpower and logistics was available. * The air space was controlled by the Allies. * The sea lanes were very short and the seas were in Allied hands. * The deception plan was flawless. * The French Resistance was highly effective. * The Opposition was poorly motivated. * Hitler's Defense Planning was flawed. * Rommel was absent from the battlfield. * The troops did their job.