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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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Who secretly helped the Allies with the invasion of the Western front?

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.

Who led the allies in d day?

U.S. General Eisenhower, 4 star General. Later he became a very cool U.S. President. His nickname was Ike. I suppose he was the most responsible for D-Day, because he was willing to take responsibility for the failure of the invasion if it had not worked out.

The over person that gave the go ahead was Winstan churchill. However, General Dwight Eisenhower was put in charge of what became known as Operation Overlord. Eisenhower had the task of organising a million combat troops and two million men involved in providing support services.

The plan, drawn up by George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Bernard Montgomery, Omar Bradley, Bertram Ramsay, Walter Bedell-Smith, Arthur Tedder and Trafford Leigh-Mallory, involved assaults on five beaches west of the Orne River near Caen (codenamed Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah) by the British 2nd Army and the American 1st Army. Follow-up forces included the Canadian 1st Army and the American 3rd Army under Lt. General George Patton.

How did the war go for the British after 1757?

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

Did D-day have a negative effect on the allied countries?

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

How did invasions affect the Jewish?

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.

What type of rifle did The Germans used on D-Day?

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

What did soldiers eat during D-day?

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.

How was d day a victory for the allies?

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.

Where did the largest sea invasion in world history take place?

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.

Why was d day such a success?

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.

How many soldiers were killed during Doolittle's Raid?

No Army Air Force personnel were killed during the raid. Men died while parachuting from their aircraft over China, others drowned when they landed by parachute in China. Some of the men captured by the Japanese were executed in Japan, and other men died in captivity. Of the 80 Army Air Force personnel that took part in the raid, 71 survived.

Richard V. Horrell WW 2 Connections.com

What state in the United States is an island?

How can Alaska be an island ? Its part of the North American continent, with a long border with Canada. If the question means, which of the US States is an island state, it can only refer to Hawaii

In which country is Normandy?

Normandy lies on the northern coast of France, along the English Channel south east of Great Britain. Normandy includes territory in northern France and the Channel Islands.

What were the major result of d day?

After operation overlord was finished, the Allies stroke back on the Nazis in France. When the Allies started attacking the Nazis, Hitler and his newly wed wife decided to commit suicide and that was the end of the war with Europe, but the war with Japan had just begun.

How many divisions landed on D-Day?

Answer - D-Day invasion (6 June 1944): Americans: 1st Inf., 4th Inf., & 29th Inf. divisions; 101st & 82nd Airborne divisions; 2nd Ranger Bttn.. The airborne divisions jumped in during the night/early morning prior to the 6 June landing of the beach invasion units.

British: 3rd Inf., 8th Inf., 22nd Inf., 50th Inf., 6th Airborne Div

Canadian: 3rd Inf., 2nd Armored

Germans: 91st, 709th, 914th, 352nd, 6th Para, 726th, 915th, 736th, 11th Panzer, 711th. (German divisions were usually smaller and in this case, not all elements fought all at once.)

Answer - More Divisions: Here are more divisions that participated in early battle for Normandy, some landed on D-Day +1.

USA: 90 Inf, 2 Inf, 79 Inf

British: 49 Inf, 51 Inf, 3 Inf Div Grp, 27 Indep Armd Bde, 33rd Indep. Armd Bde

German: 12 SS Pz Div, 21 Pz, 243 Inf, 709 Inf, 711 Inf, 716 Inf, 91 Luftlande Div (repeating some listed above)

What were the allied nicknames for Germans?

Well, the Germans were called: Jerry, Fritz, Heinie/Hynee, Kraut, Boche (the ch pronounced like sh) and (obviously) Nazi.

What was the American's role in the execution of D-Day?

News networks released very sketchy information about D-Day, much of their news came from German & French radio broadcasts about the invasion. The news was broadcast across the US. If you read "The Bedford Boys", it gives a first-hand account of how the news was received back home. They responded by calling for prayer at the local churches, canceling all baseball games and entertainment, such as dances. The people in this town that knew they had sons and fathers preparing for the invasion would meet and compare any news they could find. For weeks, they would greet each other in the street with "Have you heard any news from your son?". It seems that the impact of the D-Day invasion was almost the same as when the bombing of Pearl Harbor was announced. Today it could be compared to the day of the terrorist attack on the twin towers.

Indentify three advantages of implementing shelter-in-place as a protective action?

~ it provides limited protection to personnel who cannot wear masks

~it can be implemented more easily than evacuation

~it uses common skills and supplies anyone can learn and practice

What kind of clothes did men and children wear during World War 2?

For school uniform, a white shirt tucked into black or brown shorts with suspenders worn quite snugly and normally shorts and suspenders over a suit if they were posh but otherwise just a shirt with a pullover. I dont know why they wore their shorts so high it just must've been in fashion.

What axis fought on d-day?

The US armed forces assign letters to certain plans, so that they can be discussed without interceptors knowing what it is. D day was the day when Britain and the US invaded France and took it back from the Germans. Some of the French fought for the Germans (and were punished by the free French later, depending on how they helped the Germans.).

So, the answer to your question would be:

The axis powers involved in D-Day were the Germans and the French that sided with the Germans.

What weapons were used on D-Day?

The Americans, British, and Canadians had an assortment of weapons including M1 Garand Rifles, Thompson sub-machine guns, "Grease" guns (an American sub-machine gun), Springfield .30 (a sniper rifle), Browning Automatic Rifle (B.A.R.), and Sten gun (British sub-machine gun)

The German forces used a variety of weapons including:

Pistols: Pistole Parabellum P-08 'Luger' Walther Pistole Model 1938 (P-38) Mauser HSc Walther PP/PPK Mauser C96 'Broomhandle'

Bolt Action Rifles: Mauser Karabiner 1898K (Kar98K, also used in sniper roles) Mauser Gewehr 1933/40 Gebergsjager Karabiner

Semi-Automatic Rifles: Gewehr 1941 W/M (Walther and Mauser made two different models) Gewehr 1943 (the Karabiner 1943 was essentially the same, though slightly shorter. Volkssturm Gewehr VG1-5

Automatic Rifles: Sturmgewehr 1944 (StG.44) Mkb 42 & KAB 42 (precursors to StG.44) Fallschirmjagergewehr 1942 (FG-42, two models were manufactured; the early model had a sloped pistol grip, the later model had a conventional pistol grip and was a specialist's rifle)

Submachine Guns: Maschinenpistole 1938/1940 (MP-38/40) MP-18/1 (WWI Bergmann model) MP-28 MP-34I (Bergmann side loading) MP-E (Erma side loading with fore grip) MP-41 (MP-40 with wooden stock) ZK38.3 (Czech) M39 (Hungarian) Suomi M31 (Finnish PPSh 41)

Machineguns: Zurich Brno 1926 (ZB-26) Maschinengewehr 1934 (MG 34) Maschinengewehr 1942 (MG 42)

Rocket/Grenade Launchers: Raketenpanzerbuchse 54 ('Panzerschreck' or 'Ofenrohr') GranatBuchse 1939 (GrB 39) Panzerfaust (aka Faust Patrone) Walther 2.7cm Leuchtpistole (aka 'Sturmpistole' or 'Kampfpistole')

Anti-Tank Rifles: Panzerbuchse 1939 (PzB 39) Mascerzek M35 (Polish, aka 'Marosczek)

Flamethrowers: Flammenwurfer 38/41

Grenades: Steilhandgranate 1924 (Gr-24, stick grenade or 'potato masher') Eirhandgranate 1939 (Ei-39, egg type) Steilnebelhandgranate 1939 (Nb 39, stick type) Panzerwurfmine (L) (Finned anti-tank hand grenade) Gabellt Ladung (grenade bundle) Sprengbuchse 1924 (aka Siebkopf) Haft-Hohllandung 3kg Magnetic 'HHL' Gewehr Sprenggranate (rifle grenade) Grosspanzergranate "46" or "61" (anti-tank rifle grenades, number designates size in millimeters) Schuss Gr-P-40 Panzer Granate (rifle grenade) Gewehrblendgranate 1942 (smoke rifle grenade) Sprengpatrone/Wurfkorper 361LP (Leuchtpistole ammunition) Wurfkorper/Panzer Wurfkorper 42LP (Leuchtpistole ammunition) Nebelpatrone (smoke round for Leuchtpistole)

Anti-tank Rockets: Panzerfaust - translates into "Armor Fist"

Why was the death toll for the US so high during D-Day?

Reason for so many American deaths on D-The Nazi found out that the Americans were planning to invade. They put land mines all over the beach along with barbwire. They also had machine guns on top of the clifs.

Contrary to this, the Nazis were unprepared for any invasion, but believed that any attempt for invasion by the allies was going to take place further along the French coast in Calais. They didn't know specifically that the invasion would take place further west along the beach. The actual estimates death toll for the allied forces varies, but is now believed to be around the reagion of 5000, not including wounded or missing. Winston Churchill believed that the death toll was going to be in excess of 20 000, so the death toll is significantly lower, but still very much so high.

If you want to know specifically why the death toll was this high, or specifically why the US toll was high, then it is largely due to the fact that the Americans had the task of taking Omaha beach. Prior to the landings there was a massive bombing of the German defensives, however, what the allies weren't aware of, was the fact that the bombings had missed their target, and had largely been ineffective on the German defenses, particularly around Omaha beach. The US soldiers also had a longer stretch of beach to traverse. When you bear that in mind with the fact that the German defenses were still in tact, it explains why the toll was that high. hope this helps

Hello one other reason the German machine guns that were being used were a 30 caliber stien gun that fired upward of 800 rpm one German machinegunner fired over 200000 rounds at the invading allies i also hope this helps

How were the allies able to achieve victoy in Europe?

several reasons, industries in Germany being bombed, aloss in proctivity. It has been said thou that German industries did "defied" the bombers and kept pumping out tanks and planes.

The bombing of oilfields and sythentic oil production plants, left Germany with an oil shortage

Hitlers "medeling" with plans, for example his halt order to his panzer forces closing in on Dunkirk, as some historians have said let the british army escape. Replacing and firing compendent Generals because he or they disagreed with one another.

Not knocking Russia or Britain out of the war. Because of this American and UK forces were able to build up in Britain and Egypt and fight the Germans on 2 fronts. Not defeating russia, dragged germnay into a war of attrition whcih they could not win with the Russians.

The SS had nothing to do with the Allies. the first part of this paragraph is true and correct but everything else is incorrect

How much damage can the atom bomb make?

A LOT!

The United States droped 3 Atomic bombs on Hiroshima in 1945. After that, the Japanese were living in hell. Atometrical (atom for short) Bombs contain very much power due to the contractoins of the protons and neutrons inside of an atom.