kris mcnally
D-Day
The Normandy Invasion began on June 6, 1944 and was a complete allied assault that originated from the southeastern Great Britain coast line and crossing the English Channel. This was single handedly the largest combined assault against the Germans throughout all of World War II. The assault involved mostly Great Britain, the United States, and Canada onto the beaches of Normandy. The assault began the air raids which were then followed by the newest tactics of using parachute dropped soldiers and also the glider landings in the darkness of the early morning. Before the early sunrise the beaches code named “Utah,” “Omaha,” “Gold,” “Juno,” and “Sword” were bombarded by a joint naval strike of both the U.S. Navy and Great Britain’s Royal Navy. Once dawn approached amphibious crafts dropped millions of soldiers and marines alike onto all five beaches in order to secure the landing of the Allied forces. Out of the five beaches, the two bloodiest and most well-known were Utah and Omaha beach. The beaches of Normandy were secured at the cost of 12,000 out of 156,000 troops, but even then Normandy itself was not entirely secured until two months later. D-Day paved the way for the Allied forces to establish a stronghold in France and later liberate Paris.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Band of Brothers. New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 1992.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Normandy
D-Day
The Normandy Invasion began on June 6, 1944 and was a complete allied assault that originated from the southeastern Great Britain coast line and crossing the English Channel. This was single handedly the largest combined assault against the Germans throughout all of World War II. The assault involved mostly Great Britain, the United States, and Canada onto the beaches of Normandy. The assault began the air raids which were then followed by the newest tactics of using parachute dropped soldiers and also the glider landings in the darkness of the early morning. Before the early sunrise the beaches code named “Utah,” “Omaha,” “Gold,” “Juno,” and “Sword” were bombarded by a joint naval strike of both the U.S. Navy and Great Britain’s Royal Navy. Once dawn approached amphibious crafts dropped millions of soldiers and marines alike onto all five beaches in order to secure the landing of the Allied forces. Out of the five beaches, the two bloodiest and most well-known were Utah and Omaha beach. The beaches of Normandy were secured at the cost of 12,000 out of 156,000 troops, but even then Normandy itself was not entirely secured until two months later. D-Day paved the way for the Allied forces to establish a stronghold in France and later liberate Paris.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Band of Brothers. New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 1992.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Normandy