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What was D-Day?

Answer 1

Normandy campaign

June to Aug., 1944, in World War II. The Allied invasion of the European continent through Normandy began about 12:15 on June 6, 1944 (D-day). The plan, known as Operation Overlord, had been prepared since 1943; supreme command over its execution was entrusted to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. In May, 1944, tactical bombing was begun in order to destroy German communications in N France. Just after midnight on June 6, British and American airborne forces landed behind the German coastal fortifications known as the Atlantic Wall. They were followed after daybreak by the seaborne troops of the U.S. 1st Army and British 2d Army. Field Marshal B. L. Montgomery was in command of the Allied land forces. Some 4,000 transports, 800 warships, and innumerable small craft, under Admiral Sir B. H. Ramsay, supported the invasion, and more than 11,000 aircraft, under Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, formed a protective umbrella. While naval guns and Allied bombers assaulted the beach fortifications, the men swarmed ashore. At the base of the Cotentin peninsula the U.S. forces established two beachheads–Utah Beach, W of the Vire River, and Omaha Beach, E of the Vire, the scene of the fiercest fighting. British troops, who had landed near Bayeux on three beaches called Gold, Juno, and Sword, advanced quickly but were stopped before Caen. On June 12 the fusion of the Allied beachheads was complete. The German commander, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, found that Allied air strength prevented use of his reserves. U.S. forces under Gen. Omar N. Bradley cut off the Cotentin peninsula (June 18), and Cherbourg surrendered on June 27. The Americans then swung south. After difficult fighting in easily defendable "hedgerow" country they captured (July 18) the vital communications center of Saint-Lô, cutting off the German force under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. The U.S. 3d Army under Gen. George S. Patton was thrown into the battle and broke through the German left flank at Avranches. Patton raced into Brittany and S to the Loire, swinging east to outflank Paris. A German attempt to cut the U.S. forces in two at Avranches was foiled (Aug. 7—11). The British had taken Caen on July 9, but they were again halted by a massive German tank concentration. They resumed their offensive in August and captured Falaise on Aug. 16. Between them and the U.S. forces driving north from Argentan the major part of the German 7th Army was caught in the "Falaise pocket" and was wiped out by Aug. 23, opening the way for the Allies to overrun N France.

Answer 2

D-Day is a term often used in military parlance to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. "D-Day" often represents a variable, designating the day upon which some significant event will occur or has occurred; see Military designation of days and hours for similar terms. The initial D in D-Day has had various meanings in the past, while more recently it has obtained the connotation of "Day" itself, thereby creating the phrase "Day-Day."

By far, the best known D-Day is June 6, 1944 — the day on which the Battle of Normandy began — commencing the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II. However, many other invasions and operations had a designated D-Day, both before and after Operation Overlord. The invasion of France was originally planned for June 5, 1944 but bad weather and heavy seas delayed that.

Answer 3

While generally when one mentions D-Day the answer will be the June 6, 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy, France, D-Day is actualy a term denoting the day a planned military attack is to begin or occur. The most famous is, of course, the Normandy invasion. But the invasion of Sicily would have begun on a D-Day, same for Iwo Jima, etc.

Due to the fame the Normandy invasion recieved, other D-Day during the war occuring afterward recieved a different letter than D to denote them. The planned invasion of the Japanese home islands would have started on X-day, for example.

Answer 4

The Allied invasion of the European continent through Normandy began about 12:15 on June 6, 1944 (D-day). The plan, known as Operation Overlord, had been prepared since 1943; supreme command over its execution was entrusted to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Answer 5

Ah D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy split into 6 beach heads. Gold, Omaha, Sword, Juno, Utah, and Pointe du Hoc. 3000 ships (largest in recorded history) 1 million troops (largest invasion force into Europe), and beginning of the end of the 3rd Reich in Western Europe. An interesting little thing though. If the Nazis had deployed their Panzer groups during D-Day, the attack would have failed.

Answer 6

D-day allows for planning for an event that will occur on an unknown date. Instead of referring to a particular day, events are planned for D-5, or D+6, for example. Once the date is fixed the D + or - can be readily converted to known dates.

Answer 7

worldwide conflict II began in general simply by fact the american human beings have been unwilling to connect the League of countries on the tip of world conflict I, thereby removing what might have been that employer's significant protection tension ability. This extra approximately, or allowed a minimum of, Hitler's upward thrust to ability in Germany. there have been various factors at which he replaced into thoroughly overextended and any form of a teach of tension by skill of the League or perhaps in straight forward terms a number of its member countries might have positioned an end to his plans, however the different eu powers continuously caved in to him, appeasing him at very nearly each and every turn and permitting the territory, manpower and uncooked components decrease than his rule to repeatedly develop. Then whilst the Friendship %. between Germany and Russia replaced into signed, his decrease back replaced into coated and he might desire to attack, first Poland and then the international places to the west. American isolationism replaced into the main important reason.

Answer 8

The allies finally made it back in a direct attack on German control of Europe. June 6, 1944