does anyone know what hill the D Day flag was raised on?

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and no. you're wrong i know what i was talking about, on D Day during the war, they hoisted a flag onto a hill &i'd like to know the name.

Answer 1

D-Day is a day not only of national but also of international importance. The 6 June 1944 is a date that will forever be imprinted in our hearts and minds as D-Day – the day that the 175,000 allied troops – landed on the beaches of Normandy.

This is a White Ensign flag that was carried by one of the invasion barges during the D-Day landings, LBV – 223. It was manned by, amongst others, a man named George Sluman. George was no experienced naval officer. He earned his living as a Thames waterman. But he, along with many other watermen, was eventually recruited to the Special Services branch of the Royal Navy and specially trained for the D-Day landings.

Presenter Jonathan Foyle says: "This flag represents the ordinary men who fought for our liberty; D-Day's unsung heroes."

Where can it be found? Museum in Docklands, London.

Robert Campbell, curator, says: "This battle-scarred White Ensign was flown on the LBV-223 which was helmed by George Sluman who steered the barge to force open the gates of the French port of Corseulles-Sur-Mer."

Answer 2

Are you thinking of this one?
http://www.eastman.org/taschen/m198116780001.jpg

If so, that's not from D-day. It's from the South Pacific Island of Iwo Jima, and it's Mount Suribachi.

It happened in Feb. 1945, 3 1/2 months before D-day:
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq87-3l.htm


Additional Details:
OK, if you are really thinking of the landing on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1945, I'm sure there were probably dozens of flags hoisted on the cliffs of Normandy overlooking the beaches, as the Allies reached the German strongholds by the afternoon.

Pick a cliff in the Normandy region of France overlooking one of the landing beaches, and there is your 'hill'.

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Answer 3

This is nonsense.
Nobody raise a flag on a hill.
The Normandy coastline has no hills and that is a far as the Allies got that day.

Answer 4

"tlbs101" is obviously an intelligent person, but any of us can make a date mistake. "D-day" was 6/6/1944 eight and a half months before Iwo Jima.
This is a good question, and I'll be interested to hear or see the answer.
I might point out that all landings were called "D-days" - - yet we all think of the June 6th, 1944 date THE D-day.

Answer 5

D-Day flag? I think you mean the flag hoisted by the Marines in Japan. It was on Mt. Suribachi and it was NOT on D-Day.