D-Day

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.

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.

general Dwight d. eisenhower

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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:

gold

juno

sword

utah

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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.