D-Day

During World War II, the 'D-Day' invasion of Normandy (in northern France) involved mainly American, British, and Canadian infantry, along with Allied air and naval units of many types and consisting of many other nationalities also fighting against Nazi Germany. The fundamental role of the infantry units, serving as the key to the operation, was to seize the Normandy beaches then to advance inland, securing a base of operations from which a larger force could penetrate into German-held France -- and beyond.

The British counter-intelligence service had done a remarkable job of catching every single German spy in England. Many of these were "turned", forced to send disinformation to the Germans to mislead them.

The Allies had complete control of the air, preventing even the slightest air reconnaissance by German aircraft over the UK.

The Allies mounted a disinformation campaign called "Operation Fortitude" to mislead the Germans, and to reinforce the idea the Germans already had that the Allied landings would come at the narrowest part of the English Channel, in the Pas-de-Calais of France. As part of this they created a fictitious "First US Army Group", and let it leak out that General George Patton was in command. The Germans respected Patton as the most capable American battlefield commander they had encountered, and could not believe that he might be sidelined because he had slapped a couple of soldiers, though this was, in fact, the case. FUSAG looked to the Germans like the assault force. Fake radio traffic between non-existent units was broadcast by radio for the Germans to hear. Inflatable blow-up rubber "tanks" were staked out in fields and a single real tank driven all around to create masses of tank tracks, just in case the Germans managed to get an observation plane over.

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It just means "hour." In the military, a lot of things are preplanned--say, the president is coming to our base to award Sergeant Jones the Medal of Honor for saving his whole unit. We won't know the exact time he'll be there until two days before the event, so we draw up an operational plan that says things like "two hours before he arrives, we need to inspect the battalion dining facility to ensure the president and first lady's favorite foods are prepared and that they taste good," "six hours before he arrives, we need to move the generator to the parade field so there will be power for the ceremony" and "the day before he arrives, inspect all the 30-kW generators in the battalion. Pick the best one and make it run perfectly and look new." Soldiers hate to write, so this would actually be written as follows: H-2: Inspect DFAC.
H-6: Deploy GENSET to BN PT field
D-1: Select and prep 30K GENSET When the White House calls the unit and tells us he's going to perform the ceremony at 11am and he's going to spend half an hour visiting with the troops before he has lunch with them, we now know to check the chow hall at 0900 and take the generator to the PT field at 0500. As for the generator, we're going to pick it out really early in the morning and two soldiers are going to spend all day working on it.

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all at the same time

the patch worn on the shoulder sleeve was that of an eagle's head......thus, screaming eagles........................

Sir Frederick Edgeworth Morgan was a British lieutenant-general in the Second World War, who was the original planner of Operation Overlord.

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Juno Beach is the code name for the stretch of Normandy that the Canadian troops landed on during D-Day. It stretched from Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer on the east to Courseulles-sur-Mer.

according to historyguy.com the number ranges from 2500-4900 depending on the source.

Omaha beach

5000 hours is equivalent to 208 1/3 days.

The Germans believed they were the master race and were better then every one else at every thing

Five of the beaches used for D.Day landings were coded Utah, Omaha,Juno,Sword and Gold

"Jour-J": literally, "J-Day."

• France, on June 6, 1944
• The success of the invasion of Normandy was really the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany.
• also called "Operation Overlord"
• involved five separate landings by American, British, and Canadian troops and was commanded by American General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
• Stiff German resistance resulted in nearly 10,000 Allied casualties, but the Germans were ultimately unable to repel the Allied forces.
• Although German resistance continued even after all five beachheads were taken, they had too few troops in the area to be effective.
• August 1944, all of Northern France was under Allied control as Eisenhower began to prepare for the invasion of Germany.
• Many scholars have tried to explain the term "D-Day," suggesting it stood for "decision day" or "disembarkation day," but most likely it comes from the army's use of the term to mean an "undefined day," or the first day of any operation.
• D-Day was originally scheduled for June 5, but the weather did not cooperate. The operation was pushed back to June 6, 1944.
• The D-Day invasion involved 5,000 ships carrying men and vehicles across the English Channel as well as 800 planes dropping over 13,000 men in parachutes. A further 300 planes dropped bombs on German troops defending the beaches. Over 100,000 Allied troops made it to shore that day.
• The most difficult landing of D-Day was at Omaha beach. Navigation problems resulted in many men drowning before they reached land. Omaha Beach also had the largest amount of German troops, and the fighting was fierce. It is the Omaha Beach battle that is reenacted in the opening of the movie Saving Private Ryan.
• 1. The success of D-Day was a death knell for the Germans. Hitler was forced to fight a two-front war against the Russians on the East and the Americans, British, Canadians, and French on the West. Within a year, Hitler committed suicide, and the war was over.
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Not directly. Patton served as a diversion in England to keep the German 15th Army tied down at Pas de Calais by making them think he would be crossing that point to invade Europe. An entire U.S. army group was built around Patton called the First U.S. Army Group (FUSAG) with all the "equipment" and "men" that would compromise an U.S. Army Group. This further reinforced Hitler's belief that Patton would be crossing the channel at the narrowest point so he didn't authorize the movement of the 15th Army. By the time he realized that the allies main thrust was at Normandy, it was too late for the 15th Army to be of any help and as a matter of fact, it suffered huge casualties trying to reinforce the German forces at Normandy.

Assuming that Doom's Day is an apocalypic event the closest opposite would be a "Day of Deliverance" or a "Rebirth" If Doom's Day is a complete anihillation then the "Big Bang" (Which was neither big nor loud) could be considered the opposite.

D Day is the popular name for the June 1944 Normandy invasion. American and British troops took two beaches each while the Canadians took one. All beach assaults were successful with only one being hotly contested, the American one at Omaha. The planning for Normandy was extensive, taking about two years. Massive amounts of equipment, men and ships were collected. Special assault boats were designed. Tanks that could operate briefly under water were manufactured. Technologies to take out land mines in sand were invented. Coordination between the armies, naval forces, and air forces of two major combatants and several lesser ones was remarkable. Additionally the attacks were coordinated with the French underground. Also there was a vast intelligence apparatus used to hide the actual invasion plans. The Normandy invasion was considered a necessity by the western Allies as the only way to get at the main enemy (German) strength. Peripheral attacks on German air forces, naval forces, Italian and north African armies were all successful but the main German army had not yet been engaged. Britain feared a confrontation with the German army, having been whipped severely and repeatedly by often inferior sized German forces. As such the British publicly pushed for an invasion of France but in secret meetings fought hard to slow it down. The English preferred that peripheral attacks continue. They wanted to keep fighting in Italy. Perhaps a Balkan front up through Greece or a link to Tito's forces in Serbia? More bombing, especially of civilians to crush German home front morale. All sorts of ideas came out the British, all of which might have had success if tried, but none would have been decisive. The American approach was direct - into France, fight east to the Rhine and into Germany. End the war as quickly as possible regardless of short term casualties. While eventually the American approach won out, it was delayed at least a full year by British foot dragging, possibly two years. The British were eventually persuaded by being given two relatively undefended beaches to assault, leaving the heavy lifting to their allies. In fact, one British beach was defended by Russian POW's with German officers. Spying the invasion these 'troops' dropped their guns and fled without a shot. IMO, it is likely the invasion could have taken place successfully in 1943 had the western Allies not used up men and ships invading Italy. 1942 is more problematic as Germany still had significant air forces and had not been bled so much in the Russian conflict. By 1944 is was a virtual certainty that victory would be had - in fact, most western analysts were more fearful that Russia would overrun Germany before the Americans and British could get onto the continent than they were that the invasion would actually fail.

The 90th is near and dear to my heart. While I cant speak specifically in regards to the 537th (my grandfather was in the 359th), I can say that many of my answers came from John Colby's book War From The Ground Up.

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How big is the Omaha Beach?