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'D-Day' (Read Description)
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This is nearly finished but I could always add more onto it, it is mostly about the technology used although includes some statistics and other facts. I also have a resource showing the websites I used to get the information, it's on my profile.
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'D-Day' (Read Description)
When?
June 6th 1944
Codenames
Operation overlord
The allied invasion of north-west Europe
Operation Neptune
Was the assault phase of Operation Overlord
Involved landing the troops on the beaches (and all other supporting operations) to establish a beachhead in France
Began on D-Day- 6th June 1944
Ended on 30th June 1944
Began on D-Day- 6th June 1944
Ended on 19th August 1944, when the allied forces crossed the River Seine
Numbers
The Normandy Landings
Around 156,000 allied troops landed in Normandy on day 1 of the invasion
61,715 British Soldiers
73,000 American Soldiers
21,400 Canadian Soldiers
11,590 aircraft took part in the landings
Carried 23,400 airborne troops
Conducting 14,674 sorties
Operation Neptune
6,939 vessels were involved in the huge naval effort
Casualties
4,413 allied soldiers died on D-day alone.
German losses are estimated to be somewhere between 4,000 and 9,000
No official tally currently exists
Who?
Allied Nations
Mostly
UK
Canada
US
But also nations such as
Czechoslovakia
France
Belgium
Australia
Greece
The Netherlands
Poland
Germany
Clever technology used
Tide-prediction Machine
Horsa Gliders
ARVEs
'Hobart's funnies'
Unusually modified tanks
The Duplex Drive 'swimming tank'
The 'crocodile' flamethrower tank
The 'crab' mine-clearing flail tank
Landing Craft
Some fitted with guns or rockets
A huge range of landing craft
Tiny assault landing craft
Huge landing ships
PLUTO
Pipeline Under The Ocean
Supplied petrol from Britain to Europe via an underwater network of flexible pipes
Gave the Allied forces enough petrol to fuel aircraft and vehicles to finish the advance
Mulberry Harbours
German Defences
'Rommel's Asparagus'
Rommel was put in charge of German defences in Normandy
The Desert Fox (Field Marshal Erwin Rommel)
'Czech Hedgehogs'
These could tear through the bottom of landing craft
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