D-Day includes all of the following factors EXCEPT what answer listed below?

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A. Started on the early morning of June 6, 1944 and ended with the liberation of Paris by August 19th

B. More 150,000 survived the first day of the invasion (thousand had died) of US, Canadian, and British forces and headed inland


C. At the Normandy beaches the Germans were well fortified all along with coast with camoflagued bunkers, barber wire, machine guns, ammunition, and situated above the steep incline of the shore forcing invading troops to negociate this natural obsticle first while dodging bullets and land mines


D. The Allied generals did NOT anticipated the large loss of life that was possible of US, Canadian, and British troops; they expected limited casualties thinking the Germans were weak and that their invasion was a secret; the Germans were caught unprepared

Answer 1

D. The generals expected significatly higher losses than they experienced.

A is partially false, D-day really only was one day and every day after was D-Day plus however many days it was at that point.

Answer 2

"D-Day" was a general term used for all Allied amphibious landings, and referred to the day of the landings themselves; it was NOT exclusive to Operation Overlord, so it really depends on what you mean by "D-Day." If you're using it to mean "Operation Overlord," then A would be wrong because Paris wasn't liberated until August 25th. If you're using "D-Day" in the true sense of the word--to refer to June 6th--then A is wrong because as soon as June 6th was over, so was D-Day.

Also, C isn't entirely accurate. Some parts of the Normandy beachhead were extremely well fortified (Omaha Beach suffered the worst casualties by far), whereas many of the other beaches were not protected all that well. Although American forces landed at the wrong location, the place where Utah Beach was established was very underprotected. Through Allied counterintelligence, German commanders believed the invasion would be at Calais until the very last minute, so the area around Calais was far better protected.

Hope this helps! I would probably go with A, though.

Answer 3

A. is putting it a bit sloppily, because it depends on what you mean by D-Day, and you can quarrel with the exact times or dates a bit, but it's broadly true.

D. is seriously wrong. On the evening of June 5, the weather forecast was still a bit gloomy, so Eisenhower was in quite a worried conference with his invasion commanders. Then a courier arrived from Bletchley Park and handed him a Colossus decrypt of a Lorentz radio message from Hitler to Rommel, to tell him that the Normandy invasion was imminent. They knew we were coming, all right. But they didn't know that we meant it! The rest of the message said that Normandy was only a feint to draw troops away from Rommel's area around Calais, and a huge Army group under George Patton were due to hit the Calais area five days later, so Rommel was NOT to move troops.

Patton's Army group didn't exist, of course, but the Germans had been suckered by fake radio traffic all over south-east England, plus Patton's towering combat reputation, and as for Eisenhower - who he?

But it was great news, so Eisenhower handed the decrypt back to the courier, and announced to the room "We go tomorrow". He knew the Germans weren't weak, but he now knew that they weren't going to get any reinforcements for at least five days, and probably a day or two more.

Answer 4

Houston, we have a problem.
A. D-day is just a day. It can't, by definition, stretch out for weeks. Some Frenchmen in the British SAS went in before midnight, but the first shots fired on the ground were by the "Ox and Bucks" so 6 June is it.
B. This one is somewhat true, though the extent of inland penetration in some areas wasn't as deep as expected.
C. This describes Omaha beach well, but the other beaches, especially Juno, though heavily defended and fortified, was pretty flat.
D. Many thought casualties would be much higher than they were. Wildly high estimates ran as much as 75% among the paratroopers.

Answer 5

A is incorrect as D-day is self limiting.
D+1 was not D-day.
Even Operation Overlord as a code title did not really extend to Paris.
Various operations names came before Paris, such as Cobra, the beginning of the American breakout.

C is incorrect as the beaches varied considerably in fortification and physical nature.

D is incorrect as overall, the casualties were not as bad has had been planned for. Even on Bloody Omaha, the casualties were, finallly, not worse than projected.
(The initial resistance was much worse, but the defences more brittle than expected.)
"Of all the thousands who landed that morning on Utah, only twelve were killed and just over a hundred wounded."

It wasn't all like Omaha at all.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

A

Operation Overlord may have ended with the liberation of Paris, D-Day ended June 7, 1944.

Answer 8

General Eisenhower anticipated a high mortality rate.
D Day refers to one day, the day of the invasion.
Some of the German cannon were undergoing repair and were not available for defense on the day of invasion. The steepness of the shore varied from one beach to another. All in all Utah Beach was the worst.
See the movie "Saving Private Ryan" for an excellent take on the day of invasion.

Answer 9

A. Although the invasion started early in the morning and Allies did NOT liberate Paris for almost another year.

Answer 10

A. is false. D-Day started June 6 and ended on June 30.

D. is false. Casualties were expected to be heavy since Hitler made it a prime goal to defend France's coastline.

Answer 11

A is false. D-Day began late in the night of June 5.