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The Roosevelt administration's refusal to give de Gaulle official recognition or to make any suggestive action to make him recognised as a party along the lines of the British created a situation from de Gaulle's point of view in which France, liberated by the Allies, would have been ruled by the British and the military government of the Allied occupied territories under American rule (in English AMGOT - the allied military government of occupied territories) until France would be completely liberated and elections could be held.


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[5] Objectives of the invasion The objectives of the first forty days were: To create a bridgehead that would include the cities of Caen and Cherbourg, especially Cherbourg, since a deep harbour was located there.


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Break forward from the beachhead and free Brittany and its Atlantin-side ports and proceed to a front line estimated 200 kilometres southwest of Paris, from Le Havre through Le Mans to Tours.


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The three-month goal was to control the area between the Loire and the Seine.


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Preparations Choosing a landing site The location of the landing site was greatly limited by the operational radius of the Allied destroyers.


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Geographical considerations limited the options to two: the Pas-de-Calais and the Normandy coast.


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Pas-de-Calais, on the coast of the Strait of Dover, was the shortest distance from the British Isles, the coast was there most suitable for invasion and the route of advance to Germany the most direct.


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However, the Germans were thought to have understood the same facts and fortified the area best accordingly.


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Because of this, Normandy was chosen as the site of the landing.


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Largely taught by the catastrophic invasion of Dieppe by the Canadians earlier, the Allies decided not to attack the French port directly.


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Beaching into the broad front area of Normandy allowed a simultaneous threat to two naval bases, Cherbourg and coastal bases in Brittany further north, as well as an attack route overland to Paris and towards the German border.


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Normandy was a less defended coast and an unexpected, but strategic place, by exploiting which it was possible to mix and disperse the defending German forces.


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Capabilities to be used in the offensive In December 1943, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named Supreme Commander of the Allied Transfer Army and he was hereby given general responsibility for Allied European forces.


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In January 1944, General Bernard Montgomery was made operational director for the landings ground forces.


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At this point, the plan called for the landings of three divisions and the dropping of two brigades by parachutes.


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Montgomery increased the number of troops to five divisions coming from the sea and three from the air.


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A total of 47 divisions would be tied to the Battle of Normandy: 26 British, Canadian and other European divisions, plus 21 American divisions.


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Operation Neptune Operation Neptune () involved crossing the Channel and beaching on the Normandy coast.


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The operation involved Operation Taxable, in which Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bombers dropped strips of aluminium on Cap d'Antifer to film an air attack on German radars.


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For the ships, reflector balloons were towed by motor and torpedo boats to depict the ships' crossing of the English Channel to France.


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Similar to Operation Taxable was Operation Glimmer, in which strips of aluminium were dropped from Short Stirling bombing aircraft opposite Boulogne.


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More than 6000 ships would be involved in the invasion under Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay — including just under 5000 landings, six battleships, four armoured gunboats, twenty-three cruisers, 104 destroyers, as well as 152 escort ships.


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[6] Under Air Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory there were 12000 aircraft assigned to support the landings.


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The strength also included 1000 transport aircraft to transport paratroops.


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5000 tons of bombs had been allocated to break the resistance of German forces.


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Operation Cork was to improve the survival of the landing ships and the ships supporting them from German submarines.


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The 19th Brigade and 9th Brigade of the Coastal Service attacked German submarines with bombers while they were surface-driving and by plunging aiming machine-gun fire to prevent emergency dives by killing or wounding German marines on deck, in order to submerge bombing would have been possible.


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Forty German U-boats were targeted during Operation Cork, of which two were sunk within 22 minutes on 7 June 1944 by a Liberator bomber piloted by Ken Moore of the 224th Squadron.


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During Operation Fortitude, the Germans considered the narrowest point of the Channel, the surroundings of Pas-de-Calais, as the most likely point of invasion, and concentrated the focus of their defences in the area.


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To distract the Germans into believing that the attack would actually come to the Pas-de-Calais, the Allies prepared a massive diversionary plan called Operation Fortitude.


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The Allies created an entire fictional First United States Army Group with its bases, fake buildings, stockpiles of materials and fake radio communications.


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Opposite the Pas-de-Calais on England's south-east coast, a base area for the invasion army was staged.


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Shallow barges suitable for the landings had been collected on the shores, in which work was continuously carried out.


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The bustling vehicle and freight train traffic provided an image of equipping the military.


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In the camp area built as a set, men were constantly moving and training in barracks and tented villages.


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Cannons, vehicles and ammunition boxes built as scenes were assembled in the storage area.


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In fact, the barracks and tents were mostly empty, only about a battalion's worth of men housed in them, who periodically changed different uniforms to give an image of a large army.


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For the viewings, ten thousand National Guardsmen from the Home Guard, mostly men of retirement age or discharged from front service, and warvalids faded in from time to time.


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The Germans also assumed that General George S. Patton would lead the invasion.


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Patton was mentioned as commander of an army group and travelled to southern England as if to command an army corps.


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The Germans had sent an extensive espionage network to southern England to obtain information on preparations for the invasion.


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However, the agents had been exposed and captured by the Allies, and sent messages in their names that the attack would likely come to the Pas-de-Calais.


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In order to maintain the diversion as long as possible, it was continued even after fighting in Normandy had begun, by conducting jamming attacks at Pas-de-Calais against radar stations and other targets.


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Due to the diversionary plan, the Germans were still waiting for the invasion of the Pas-de-Calais in August and assumed that the invasion of Normandy was merely a diversion.


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Special preparations More special preparations included Allied armoured vehicles specially designed for this attack.


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Among these, the most special was the Sherman DouplexDrive (DD), developed in the United States, which had full swimming capability.


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Other pioneer wagons developed by the Americans included the minesweeping wagon Sherman Crab (crab), a bridge tank built on a Shermann chassis.


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In addition, the English developed the Churchill AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers), which was the most advanced pioneer tank of its time.


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AVRE was able to be equipped with, among other things, bridge, minesweeping equipment, bumper blade, “bundle” and carpet (see also Hobart Funnies).


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The plan also included the construction of two artificial harbours (codenamed Mulberry), with the aim of getting vital supplies to the landing force in the first few weeks before deep ports could be recaptured, and Operation Pluto, which included underwater fuel pipelines of construction from England for the invasion forces.


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German defence preparations In November 1943, when Adolf Hitler decided that the threat of invasion to France was no longer ignored, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was appointed Inspector General of Coastal Defence and later to command Army Group B, which included northern France ground forces.


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Rommel firmly believed that the only chance of winning an attack would be for tanks to counterattack the beaches as early as possible and wanted at least some armour to be placed close enough to the beaches ready for a counterattack.


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The idea of a defence pushed forward was based on the fact that if tanks were in a strategic reserve concentrated away from the landings coast, bringing them into the combat zone would become impossible because the Allies, with their air superiority, would seek to prevent the transfer, and therefore defense should be built in advance on the estimated area.


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While in the Afrika Korps, Rommel was acquainted with Allied air superiority as a commander.


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For his primary seat, Rommel chose the lowest floors of the Duke of Rochefoucauld's home, La Roche-Guyon Castle, in the department of Val-d'Oise.


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From Rommel's point of view, the most likely invasion area was Pas-de-Calais and the second most likely Normandy.


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Rommel called for the unification of the defence branches regionally under a single operational military command.


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The subordination of the Air Force and Navy to the leadership of coastal defence did not happen to Aviation Minister Herman Göring or Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz.


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[7] Rommel's authority was limited, however, as he was not supreme commander of the western German forces, but that post was held by Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt.


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Von Rundstedt — supported by Geyr von Schweppenberg, commander of the Western Panzer Corps, who was similarly supported by the Inspector-General of the German Panzer Forces, Colonel General Heinz Guderian — favored placing the armour farther inland so that an enemy front line could be located and then implement a counterattack.


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The operational debate reflected the dissenting experiences of German war leaders.


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Von Runstedt and Guderian had gained most of their experience at a time when the Luftwaffe controlled the skies, or in large areas of the Eastern Front where neither side had a chance of achieving air supremacy throughout the front.


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Rommel's experiences were completely different.


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He had been allowed to discern the effectiveness of Allied tactical air forces already in Africa.


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Rundstedt and Guderian never thought about the effectiveness of the Allied air force by comparing it to the 1939—1941 Luftwaffe — after all, the strength of the Luftwaffe was greatly reduced in the Battle of Britain — and moreover, the effectiveness of the Allied air forces was still many times that of this.


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Rommel understood this, but the other commanders did not.


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To resolve the dispute, Hitler divided the six armoured divisions in service in northern France, placing three of them directly at Rommel's disposal.


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The other three were stationed at a distance from the coast and could not be moved without direct approval from Hitler's warleadership.


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German air defences along the coast consisted of only 169 fighter jets, as Allied air raids had destroyed the Luftwaffe fighting power in the airfields of northern France.


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Because of this, on 6 June, the number of Luftwaffe combat flights was two flights.


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Last-minute preparations Before the battle, the Allies had accurately mapped and tested the landings area, paying particular attention to weather conditions in the English Channel.


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Lighting and tide definitely required a full moon.


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The original date for D-Day was June 5, but bad weather moved the landings.


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On June 6, the weather was still on the limit, but Eisenhower did not want to wait until the next full moon.


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This decision helped surprise German troops unprepared, as they did not believe in the invasion in such bad weather.


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Rommel's departure from France to Germany on the occasion of his wife's 50th birthday on 4 June weakened German defences in Normandy.


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Groups Allies Group of troops according to the battle plan on the day of landing: Paratroops: British 6th Parachute Division 3rd Parachute Brigade 8th and 9th Parachute Battalion and 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion are dropped by parachutes and gliders east of the Orne River to protect the left flank.


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The US 101st Parachute Division is dropped around Vierville.


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The US 82nd Parachute Division is dropped in the vicinity of Sainte-Mère-Église to protect the right flank.


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Landing beaches from east to west, 21st Army Group: British 2nd Army US-Canadian 1st Special Forces Brigade 3rd, 4th and 6th Commando and 45th Commando of British Marines come ashore at Ouistreham in the Queen Red sector (westernmost).


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The 4th Commando is reinforced by French 1st and 8th Companies from the International 10th Commando.


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Sword beach, British I Army Corps: British 3rd Infantry Division and 27th Armoured Brigade go ashore from Quistreham to Lion.


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The 41st Commando of the British Royal Marines (part of the Marines' 4th Special Forces Brigade along with the 46th, 47th and 48th Commando) comes ashore on the right flank of Sword Beach.


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Juno beach, British I Army Corps: Canadian 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Armoured Brigade and British 48th Commando go ashore from St. Aubin to La Riviere.


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The 46th Commando of the Marines climbs up the cliffs to the left of the Orne and destroys the cannon battery (battery fire was found to be useless, so the 46th Commando was kept at sea as a reserve).


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Gold beach, British XXX Army Corps: British 50th Division and 8th Armoured Brigade go ashore from La Riviere to Arromanches.


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The 47th Marine Commando comes ashore on the western flank.


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US 1st Army: Omaha beach, US V Army Corps: US 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions go ashore from St. Hondrain to Vierville sur Mer.


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A Ranger battalion takes over the artillery positions at Pointe du Hoc.


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Utah beach, US VII Army Corps: US 4th Infantry Division comes ashore around Pouppeville and La Madeleine.


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Also, the activities of the French resistance, the Maquisie, can be counted as an Allied grouping, as it helped disrupt German troop transfers and message traffic.


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According to SOE, it was linked to 137 radio stations of the French Resistance and that the total strength of the French Resistance was about 350,000 members in the spring of 1944, of whom 100000 had firearms and 10,000 more ammunition than would be needed for a single day of fighting.


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The Resistance would not have been able to fight, but it supported the invasion with destruction works and reconnaissance.


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At the heart of carrying out the destruction work was the French Resistance Railways, the Résistance-Fer, which assessed troop transfers supplied by the Germans with divisional accuracy based on the quantities of military trains.


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He's 12.


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The SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend was assessed as almost full-strength on the basis that 84 freight trains had been required for its transport.


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[8] Thanks to the destructive operation, rail traffic stagnated in Bourgogne and eastern France to the border of the Greater German Empire.


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Thirty-seven railway lines were cut off in the Dijon region.


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In retaliation to the activities of the Résistance-Fer, the Germans executed French railroaders and three thousand of them were sent to camps in Germany.


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The Germans were forced to make up for the French shortage of railwaymen by bringing 2500 German railways to the French railways.


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[9] Bombarding the railways or destroying the railway forced the armoured forces to move overland, which increased fuel consumption for the transfer and also the wear and tear of the shipyards.


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As part of economic warfare, the U.S. 8th Air Force bombed oil pumping stations and oil refineries to cause fuel shortages for motorized troops.


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[10] The Resistance was also given other tasks hampering German defenders to perform.


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According to Plan tortue (Finnish for plan tortoise), pins and broken glass were to be sprinkled on roads used by service vehicles to puncture the tyres of military vehicles.


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In Plan violet, meanwhile, according to General Alphonse Antoine's plan, the staff of PTT, the postal, telegraph and telephone facility, had to damage underground telecommunications links to the detriment of the Germans in order to reduce their military efficiency and to make them cable connections when replaced by radio connections would be exposed to Allied signals intelligence by air.


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[10] The German Germans had fortified the beach area extensively as part of the defence of the Atlantic rampart.


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This prompted the Allies to shift the time of their attack to low tide.


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The beach area was guarded by 4 divisions, of which only one (352.)


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was experienced.


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Many others were made up of Germans who were generally unfit for regular service on the Eastern Front for medical reasons, as well as people of other nationalities (predominantly Russians) who had volunteered to fight on the side of the Germans rather than in a POW camp.


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The 21st Panzer Division guarded Caen, and the 12th.


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The SS Panzer Division was positioned to the southeast.


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Its soldiers had been directly recruited from Hitler-Jugend at the age of 16 and would gain a reputation in the coming battle as a tenacious fighting unit.


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Some of the areas behind Utah Beach were covered by floodwater by the Germans in case of a parachute attack.


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Troops, Front Blocks and Front Sectors The names of areas in the original mission maps are Utah area, Omaha area, Gold area, Juno area and Sword area, in English Utah area, Omaha area, Gold area, Juno area and Sword area.


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However, in the press and then in literature, the name Utah Beach, Omaha Beach, Gold Beach, Juno Beach and Sword Beach began to be referred to as Utah Beach, Omaha Beach, Gold Beach, Juno Beach, and Sword Beach in English.


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In Finnish, the English name of beaches has often been used, but in Jorma-Veikko Sappinen's 2009 translation of Antony Beevor's book Normandy 1944, the generic title part of the names is in Finnish.


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Allied invasions Landing in the Caenin-Cabourg region From the Allies, the British carried out a landing by Horsa glider aircraft to the area between the Orne and Dives rivers Caen, Troarn, Cabourg and Quistreham by troops commanded by Sword Beach Montgomery to the future left flank.


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The 6th Brigade was landed at Amfreville and, south-west of Bréville-les-Monts, the 5th Parachute Brigade north of the road from Hernouvilette to Ranville.


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The Canadian 9th Parachute Brigade, which fought in the British forces, was counted to the north-west of Varaville and the 8th Parachute Brigade the southernmost south-west of Touffréville.


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[12] The landings involved the debacle Operation Titanic, in which forty bombers of the Royal Air Force's Lockheed Hudson, Handley Page Halifax and Short Stirling bombers dropped strips of aluminium to defraud German radars as well as still fake landing parachutists.


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Of the fake landing parachutists, two hundred were dropped south of Carentan, fifty east of the River Dives, and fifty to the south-west of Caen.


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Because the fake landing parachutists upon entering the ground exploded and caught fire, the Germans called them Explosivpuppe (German: eine Explosivpuppe).


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To increase the credibility of the fake landing divers, the SAS also sent small real parachutists to cause further confusion in the German forces.


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The area of the extreme limits of the drop zone for fake landing divers was larger than the landing area of the 5th Parachute Brigade, 6th Brigade and 7th, 8th and Canadian 9th Parachute Brigades.


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Pegasus Bridge 6th British Parachute Division was the first troop detachment to begin the action, ten minutes past midnight.


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Its objective was the area east of the Orne River.


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The parachute division's first unit towed into the air by Halifax bombardment aircraft and landed by Horsa glider aircraft near Cabourg beach resort was D Company of 2nd Battalion, led by Major John Howard.


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It targeted the Pegasus Bridge and other river crossings on the eastern flank of the landings, the bridges of the River Orne and the Caen Canal, and, in addition to this, a cannon battery at Merville.


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The cannons were destroyed and the bridges overrun and held until the commandos relieved them of their duties late on 6 June.


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Caen Canal Bridge, Pegasus Bridge.


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Two platoons were used to take over Pegasus Bridge, from which the first platoon leader, Lieutenant Den Brotheridge, fell to his neck from a wound he received along the platoon's record bridge to the resistance beach and after the Germans began to actively fire.


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The second platoon was led by Lieutenant Dennis Fox


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Ouistreham 4th Commando Corps was beached led by Free French forces.


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These troops were commanded by Lieutenant Commander Philippe Kiefer.


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After coming ashore, the troops headed east, having separate targets at Ouistreham, with French bunker and Casino and Brits two batteries guarding the beach.


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The bunker proved too strong for the commandos Piat bazookas, but the Casino was overrun with the assistance of Centaur armor.


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British commandos made it to both batteries, only to find that the cannons had been diverted.


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Leaving the final clean-ups to the infantry, the commandos withdrew from Ouistreham to join other elements of the 1st Special Forces Brigade advancing inland to join the 6th Paratroop.


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Partial landings on the beaches Sword Beach Fleet prepared the attack with artillery fire for 30 minutes from 6:45 to 7:15 a.m.


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After preparation for fire, the assault force was beached at Sword Beach at about 7:20 a.m.


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Of the 40 amphibious armour vehicles, 28 made it to the beach and they continued their assigned mission.


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Male losses in the operation amounted to 630 lives.


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[13] The French commando force continued to move towards the town of Ouisterham and the British forces gained contact with the landing force of the 6th Division.


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However, they failed in the expected advance and had advanced by the end of the day by about 8 miles.


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However, the set objective Caen still remained in the hands of the Germans.


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Juno Beach Canadians came ashore behind their schedule, and were therefore affected by high tide and beach mines.


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Because of this, most of the first wave stock was lost and suffered losses of about 50%.


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Fierce street battles took place at Courselles on the approaching 12 of the bridgehead.


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Against the SS Panzer Division.


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The Canadian troops who had landed on Juno were confronted by a strong German force.


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The Germans had 11 heavy 155mm gun batteries, nine medium-heavy 75mm gun batteries, as well as machine gun colonies, bunkers and other concrete equipment, and a barrier twice the height of the Omaha Beach sea barrier.


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Despite the obstacles, the Canadians had advanced from the shore and began their advance inland.


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The 6th Canadian Armoured Regiment, or 1st Husar Regiment, was the only Allied unit to reach its 6th objective when crossing the Caen—Beyeux highway 15km inland.


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By the end of D-Day, 14,000 Canadians had been successfully beached and the 3rd Canadian Division had penetrated deeper into France than any other Allied force, encountering the stiffest resistance except Omaha.


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The first German counterattack towards the invasion was directed between Sword and Juno Beaches and the Canadians held out with several of the 12.


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At the mercy of heavy counterattacks by the SS Panzer Division on 7 and 8 June.


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Juno's total losses were 875 men.


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[13] At Gold Beach Gold, the losses were 400 men.


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[13] Part of the reason was that the arrival of the swimming Sherman amphibious armour was delayed.


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The village on the shore had been strongly fortified by the Germans and losses were suffered despite the fleet destroying some of the positions with its barrier fire.


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The 50th Division, however, overcame its difficulties and advanced up the Bayeux'n-Caen road by the end of the day.


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No one got closer to their goals.


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Fleet fire preparation began at 5.10am with the cruiser HMS Orion firing the first shots.


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The Germans' 155mm battery returned fire but was silenced by a full hit at 8.45am.


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The troops came ashore starting at 7:25 a.m.


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By the end of the day, nearly 25,000 troops had come ashore on this coastal strip.


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The 47th Commando was the last British commando to go ashore.


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Its mission was to advance inland and then turn west and complete a 16km march through enemy territory to attack the coastal port at Port en Bessin.


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This small harbour was well sheltered by limestone cliffs.


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At Omaha Beach in Omaha Beach, the U.S. 1st Infantry Division suffered major male losses and did not advance far during the first day.


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Most of the swimming Sherman tanks sank before reaching shore in the storm.


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The opposing German 352nd Division was the best-trained division of the defenders.


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It was in position atop the steep cliffs guarding the beach.


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The division in question had been in training the night before to combat the invasion.


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Aerial bombardment and barrages of ship artillery had not hit here with German firebases.


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The Germans wiped the beach with machine gun fire and the landings were ripped by the fire of the topping cannons.


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The official record states that “Within 10 minutes, by the time the ramps had been laid, the leading company had become leaderless and completely incapacitated.


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Every officer and sergeant had been killed or wounded.


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It had become a struggle to survive and be saved.” The division lost about 4300—6000 soldiers, according to the latest research.


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Thus, the Omaha lane was unable to advance three miles further on the first day.


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But the troops that came ashore still organized themselves, and the Germans here were unable to repel the invasion either.


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The massive concrete, cliff-top cannon post Pointe du Hoc was the target of the American 2nd Ranger Battalion.


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Their mission was to climb up cliffs about 30 feet high under enemy gunfire and then attack and destroy cannons that could have bombarded the Omaha and Utah landings.


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The rocket sharks used for the climb were drenched, and the men had to climb mainly on the rock using daggers daggers [14].


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The troops gained access to the position and the cannons, which had been moved probably due to a preceding bombardment to shelter nearby, were found and destroyed.


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The losses of the Ranger force were heavy, 135 of the 225 men fell.


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At Utah Beach, losses were 23,000 out of 197 landings, the fewest of any beaches.


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These troops, too, advanced towards inland and managed to gain contact with parts of the parachute divisions.


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The American landing in Vierville and Sainte-Mère-Église the 82nd and 101st Parachute Divisions were less fortunate.


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Partly because of inexperienced pilots and partly because of the difficulty of the terrain, they made the landing badly dispersed.


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Some fell into the sea or deliberately flooded areas.


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After 24 hours, of the 101st Parachute Division's men, only 3,000 had been assembled.


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Many continued to stray and fight behind enemy fronts for days.


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The 82nd Parachute Division captured Sainte-Mère-Église early on 6 June, making it the first village to be liberated by the invasion.


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Mulberry Harbours Once the invasion force had secured the bridgehead, the two assembling harbours were towed in parts across the English Channel.


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Ports were placed at Arromaches and Omaha Beach.


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About a week after the landings, the worst summer storm erupted in the Channel in 30 years and devastated the Port of Omaha on June 16.


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As a result, the process of getting supplies to Normandy and the transfer of wounded across the Channel back to England was also at a standstill.


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For its part trees, 9000 tons of material was brought ashore in the port of Arromanches by the end of August, by which time the ports of Antwerp and Cherbourg were already held by the Allies and made available.


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The German defenders in positions on the shore made only minimal resistance — they were poorly trained, lacking transport equipment and equipment.


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Plus, they had been bombed for almost a week.


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The exception was the 352nd Infantry Division, which defended Omaha Beach — and the strength of the defenses there largely explains the losses suffered.


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It took German commanders several hours to obtain confirmation that this was an invasion and not a series of attacks.


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Their communication difficulties were compounded by the fact that several key commanders were not present.


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The dispersal of American paratroops and activity behind the front added to the confusion of the situation as reports of enemy forces emerged from all sides in northern Normandy.


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Despite this, the 21st Panzer Division made a planned counterattack between Sword and Juno, and nearly managed to make it as far as the sea.


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However, tight resistance from the armoured fighting guns and fear of falling into the mot forced the troops to withdraw before the end of June 6th.


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According to some reports, the overflying waves of paratroops was an important reason for the Germans' withdrawal.


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Since the invasion, plans for the invasion had aimed at taking the cities of Caen and Bayeux on the first day and connecting all bridgeheads except Utah.


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The intention was to push the front to within 10—16 km of the beaches, but virtually none of these objectives were met.


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The losses, however, did not form as large as had been expected by pessimistic estimates.


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Churchill, for example, had feared losses of 20,000 men when they were in reality 10,000 men.


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The bridgeheads had also withstood all German counterattacks.


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The objectives of the next few days were to connect the bridgeheads, take over Caen and conquer the deep harbour of Cherbourg as a supply route.


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12 of the Germans.


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The SS Panzer Division attacked the Canadians on 7 and 8 June, inflicting heavy losses, but failed to produce a breakthrough on the Allied beachhead.


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At the same time, the forces of the various bridgeheads joined each other.


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Sword reunited on June 7, Omaha on June 10, and Utah on June 13.


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The Allies even strengthened the front faster than the Germans.


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Although the Allies had to bring ashore all the material they needed, air supremacy and the devastation the French Resistance brought to the railways made it slow and dangerous to move German troops.


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The area behind Utah and Omaha was typical Normandy called bocage countryside and grove terrain — old embankments and hedgerows up to three feet thick.


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They formed patches, through the walls of which not even the armor you can get through.


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They also withstood gunfire and provided vision protection.


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The terrain was ideal for the Germans to defend themselves.


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The American infantry advanced slowly, suffering heavy losses as they advanced towards Cherbourg.


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The anti-landing force was repeatedly called to aid to restart an advance halted by German resistance.


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Hitler assumed the garrison of the city of Cherbourg would defend itself to the end and prevent the Allies from gaining control of the port.


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Instead, after requesting that one shot be fired towards the gate, Cherbourg's commander surrendered on 26 June.


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However, the Germans destroyed and mined the city's deep harbour so effectively that the Allies were not able to exploit it properly until August.


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Montgomery believed that Caen would be a pivotal city for the battle and made it the target of three separate attacks on 7 June — 1 July before finally being besieged and heavily bombed on 7 July.


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18—20 p.m.


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On July, Montgomery launched a major offensive in the Caen area with all three British armoured divisions with the objective of making a breakthrough into the open terrain that would lead to Paris.


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The attack was first to succeed, but then stopped at the impromptu resistance of the Germans, with the 1st and 12th Panzer Divisions defending themselves while the pioneers acted as infantry.


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The British tank losses were great, but at the same time the German reserves were tied up in battle and the attack launched by the Americans on 24 July was successful in the south.


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Most of the German resistance was finally eliminated on 21 August when the Chambois mot was closed by Canadian and Polish troops.


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The operation aimed at the liberation of Paris was launched a few days after this.


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Chronology 6 March RAF bombers make their first attack on the French railway network.


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The railway line from Chatres to Paris becomes incapacitated and the bombers return from their nightly flight without loss [15].


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29 April 1944: Air Offensive against railways and others in France begins [16].


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De Gaulle opposes it because of civilian casualties.


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The bombings will kill more than 3,000 French civilians.


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But the bombing cuts off almost all rail traffic and destroys most important bridges.


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28 May 1944: Allied shipments of arms in support of the resistance increase [17].


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On 2 June, Allied medium-heavy bombers continuously bombarded radar stations on the landings coast.


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Many bombers fall under Germans IT fire.


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On 4 June, a fleet of 5300 ships will embark from England [18] and assemble as “Piccadilly Circus” in the barraged area.


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June 5.


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In the evening, the storm raging in the English Channel will calm down.


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21:30 The BBC broadcasts a password, which says the French Resistance is carrying out more than 1000 strikes on targets important to the Germans.


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SS will avenge this e.g.


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by conducting raids on French villages.


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At about 8:30 p.m., the landing fleet sets off from “Piccadilly Circus”.


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The invasion begins with the British dropping parachute soldiers near Caen at 23:55.


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June — The American 82nd and 101st Parachute Divisions and the British 6th Parachute Division make a landfall.


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At 3:14am, the Allies begin a heavy aerial bombardment of the German positions, which is partly inaccurate.


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Just after 5:16 a.m., the fleet begins shelling the Germans' positions.


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June 6 — D-Day landings come from the sea from 6:30 a.m. to 7:45 a.m.


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The first one happening in the Utah lane is going pretty well.


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The Americans suffered losses by the Omaha and Canadians in the Juno lane of thousands of men.


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Between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m., the Allies will ascend the plateau and open the way inland, but only 1.5 km will advance on the Omaha beach during the day.


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The Allies are not achieving their goals, a unified bridgehead.


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The Germans don't start moving troops until 5 p.m.


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A counterattack by the Germans 21 PSD at one point advances close to shore at 19:00, but the Germans withdraw their armour at 21:00.


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As night begins, five divisions have gone ashore.


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On 7 June, the British take Bayeux.


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On June 12, the English advance the longest until then, to Caumont.


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In Normandy, 326,000 Allied troops.


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12—13 p.m.


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on June, the Allies connect the separate islets of the bridgehead.


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On the night against 13 June, the first V-bombs fall on England.


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On June 14, the Americans break through the marshy terrain front line.


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16 June American-Glasses to Saint Sauveur on June 18 by the Allies at the bridgehead with 619,000 troops.


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18—21 p.m.


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June Americans take over much of the Cotentin Peninsula [19] On 19 June The British mobile port of Mulberry is destroyed in a storm [20].


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The British finally take over the village of Tilly.


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20—21 p.m.


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On June the Americans blockade Cherbourg [21].


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June — Operation Epsom, an attack in the west from Caen, repelled by the Germans.


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From June 24 to June 28, the Americans take Cherbourg, with resistance still on July 3 [22].


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The Germans had mined the port of Cherbourg.


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On 1 July, von Kluge was appointed commander of German interceptor forces.


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On July 20, German generals attempted to assassinate Hitler with a bomb.


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8th—9 a.m.


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July The British take the northern half of Caen on 18—22.


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July Operation Goodwood, the rest of Caen to the Britons.


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The British advance 5—10 km but suffer heavy losses.


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July 17 — Erwin Rommel is seriously wounded when his car comes under Allied air attack.


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18—19 p.m.


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July American advance on Saint Loho [23] 24 July The US Operation Cobra begins, prospering badly in the beginning, but a breakthrough emerges the next day thanks to heavy bombardment and artillery fire.


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[24] The British and Canadians are faring less well on their fronts and making slow progress.


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July 28, Americans at Coutances.


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On July 30, the Americans take Avranches.


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On August 1, the Americans across the Cotentin Peninsula edenet to the Seine.


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On 3 August Allied forces advanced deep into Brittany.


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On August 6, the Allies advance deep south.


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On 7 August, the Germans counterattacked in the Mortain area.


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It is intercepted by the Allied Air Force after 10 km of advance.


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7 to 13 a.m.


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August The British Operation Totalize encounters major losses and gets bogged down.


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On August 12, the Allies recapture Alencon.


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around 13 August The Allies almost blockade the main German forces near Falaise on 15 August The Allies will also board us in the south of France on 16 August Americans in Chartres and Orleans.


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On 17 August, the new commander of the Germans, Model, orders his troops out of the partially blockaded Falaise, which remains with the Canadians.


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On August 18, the Canadians advance on Chambois; the Americans attack towards Paris.


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20 August The last attempt by the Germans to break out of the Falaise mot [25] On 21 August Falaise's motti closes.


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21—30 p.m.


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August The Germans retreat across the Seine.


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On 25 August, the German commander in Paris surrenders on 26 August to the British on the Seine.


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On August 30, the resistance of the Germans on the Seine stops, the fighting in Normandy ends on September 2 with the Allies on the Belgian border.


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On September 4, the Allies take Antwerp.


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September 17—27


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Allied Operation Market garden, an attempt to advance rapidly across the Rhine, ends in failure due to poor reconnaissance, preparations and stronger than expected resistance from the Germans.


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Operations related to the Normandy invasion The Normandy invasion was an extensive entity to prepare, implement, and followed by a number of different operations.


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Losses in the first days from the Normandy invasion were presented with a wide range of high loss forecasts and there were fears that its first phase, Operation Neptune, could fail.


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However, as German countermeasures lingered, mainly due to a line dispute over the use of panzer troops, the Allies managed to hold their positions, despite delays in recapturing the city of Caen.


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On 6 June 1944, the Germans deployed 21 to counterattack.


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The Ps.D.


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that reached the shore of the English Channel, splitting the Allied invasion force in two at around 8:00pm in the evening.


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However, the force was not enough to widen the gap in the landers' front and the Germans were forced to withdraw.


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During the first few days, around 6 June — 10 June 1944 there was chaos among the troops so great that no casualty figures could be established with acceptable accuracy.


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Soldiers believed to be missing had joined other troop detachments and some of the wounded had been sent for treatment to England without reporting it, resulting in the wounded being considered missing.


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[26] German troops Infantry units 36 infantry divisions of the Normandy sector of the German LXVII (68th Army Corps) under General Gustav-Adolf von Zangen of the German 346th Infantry Division under Lieutenant General Erich Diester of the German 857th Infantry Regiment German 858. Infantry Regiment German 346th Reconnaissance Battalion German 346th Artillery Regiment German 346th Anti-Tank Battalion German 711th Infantry Division Lieutenant General Josef Reichert German 731st Infantry Regiment German 74th Infantry Regiment German 711th. anti-tank company of the German 1711th Artillery Regiment German 719th Coastal Division under Lieutenant General Karl Sievers German LXXXIV (84th)


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Army Corps Lieutenant General (after his death on 12 June 1944 on 24 June 1944 Artillery General) Erich Marcks Channel Islands German 319th Infantry Division Armoured Corps and Panzer Corps British Front Block Panzerlehr Panzer Division Lieutenant General Fritz Bayerlein [27] 2nd Armoured Division under Lieutenant General Freeman Heinrich von Lüttwitz [27] 21st Armoured Division armed with Panzerkampfwagen IVs under Lieutenant General Edgar Feuchtinger [27] 1.


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SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (German: 1.


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SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler) 12.


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SS Panzer Division Hitler Jugend (German: 12.


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SS-Panzer-Division Hitler Jugend) 9.


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SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen (German: 9.


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SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen) 10.


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SS Panzer Division Frundsberg (German: 10.


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SS-Panzer-Division Frundsberg) two Panzerkampfwagen VI “Tiger” battalions of American Front Block 17.


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SS Panzer Division Götz von Berlichingen (German: 17.


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SS-Panzergrenadier-division “Götz von Berlichingen”) 2.


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SS Panzer Division Das Reich (German: 2.


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SS-Panzer-Division “Das Reich”) Consequences of the Sillanhead, which the Allies created in Normandy, was pivotal to the Western Allies, who were thus allowed to take the war to the Germans' own soil.


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It has been suggested that the Soviet armed forces would have been capable of defeating Germany without the Western Armed Forces, and that this battle was unnecessary to achieve a military victory over Germany.


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On the other hand, it has been suggested that without another front, the Soviet Union would have occupied all of continental Europe.


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The presence of Western Allies in Western Europe helped establish a position for the Western Allies in the postwar Cold War and prevented the introduction of the Soviet model of governance in central Europe.


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From this point of view, the Normandy invasion must already be seen as part of the Cold War that followed World War II.


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[1] Remembrance of the invasion A visitor to Normandy today will find many memories of the events of 1944.


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Most notable are the beaches, which are still known by their code names of the invasion.


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Next come the vast cemeteries — rows of identical white grave crosses and Stars of David, carefully tended, reminding of the Allied defeats.


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The roads near the beaches are named after the units who fought on them and memorials here and there are reminders of significant coincidences.


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Central locations such as Pointe du Hoc and Pegasus Bridge have monuments or small museums.


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Mulberry Harbour still stands off Arromanches in the sea.


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In St. Mère-Église, a parachute soldier doll hangs from a church tower.


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In Juno Beach, the Canadian government has built a massive memorial and information centre, honoring one of the most pivotal battles in Canadian Army history.


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Every year, the heads of state of the warred countries attend a memorial service on the Normandy beach.


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France minted in 2014 the 70th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy (1944-2014) - a commemorative coin.


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The steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald (often simply Fitzgerald, Fitz, or Big Fitz) was a large-sized cargo ship for Great Lakes ore shipments built in the United States and was lost with its crew in a fall storm on the Upper Lake on November 10, 1975.


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The ship sank so quickly that its 29-person crew did not have time to send any kind of distress message.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The ship's wreck rests at the bottom of Upper Lake at a depth of 162 metres in Canadian territorial waters, at location 46°59.9′N 85°6.6′W, about 27 kilometres west of the mouth of Whitefish Bay.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Later, the ballad “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, composed by Gordon Lightfoot, made the incident the most famous shipwreck on the Great Lakes.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The ship Edmund Fitzgerald was a 222.2 m long bulk cargo ship for Great Lakes traffic with a load capacity of 23,000 tons.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The ship's large hold was covered by a total of 21 watertight hatches made of eight millimeter steel, each measuring 3.53 by 16.5 metres.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

When completed at the Great Lakes Engineering Works shipyard in River Rouge, Michigan in 1958, the ship was the largest ship ever sailed on the Great Lakes.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

For comparison, it should be mentioned that modern Great Lakes cargo ships are 305 metres long and 32 metres wide, with a load capacity of up to 46000 tonnes.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Originally Fitzgerald steam boilers were coal-fired, but were converted to oil-fired during the winter of 1971—1972.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The ship was owned by Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and chartered for charter operations by the Columbia Transportation Division of Oglebay Norton Corporation.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The ship carried iron ore pellets from Duluth, Minnesota to Detroit, Toledo, and other eastern ports on the Great Lakes.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The ship was named after the operations manager of Northwestern Mutual insurance company, and was christened by his wife.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The final voyage Fitzgerald left in a cargo of 26116 tons of iron ore from Superior, Wisconsin on November 9, 1975, towards Detroit, Michigan.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The ship's master was Ernest M. McSorley.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The ship was crossing Upper Lake at a speed of about 13 knots (24 km/h) when encountering a fierce autumn storm.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The storm raged at speeds of more than 32 metres per second, with waves hitting more than five feet high.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Another freighter, Arthur M. Anderson, followed Fitzgerald some distance away.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Due to the storm, the sluices of the Soo Canal at the eastern end of Upper Lake at Sault Sainte Marie had been closed, and both ships sought to find more sheltered waters closer to the Canadian coast.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Later, ships were scheduled to cross Whitefish Bay and head towards Sault Sainte Marie.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

On the afternoon of the tenth of November, Fitzgerald reported a tilt and that the ship had suffered some damage.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Among other things, the ship's radar antenna had been lost in the storm.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

However, there was nothing to suggest serious problems.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald quieted speed to reach the inside of Anderson's radar range, and for a time the Anderson, who came after, reported radio radar data to Fitzgerald, guiding this towards the more sheltered Whitefish Bay.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The last contact from the Fitzgerald took place at 7:10pm when there was an announcement from the ship that they would be fine from here on out.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Just minutes later, the ship suddenly disappeared from Anderson's radar screen, and no distress message of any kind was ever sent.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

By 19:20, Anderson received no radar echo of any kind from Fitzgerald and failed to make radio contact with the ship.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

At 8:32 p.m., Anderson's crew alerted the Coast Guard of their concerns about Fitzgerald's fate.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Search After the disappearance was announced, searches to find survivors were launched.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

In the early stages, the search involved another cargo ship, the SS William Clay Ford, in addition to Arthur M. Anderson.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

A third ship, Canadian Hilda Marjanne, was unable to participate in the search without putting the ship and crew in danger due to the storm.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The U.S. Coast Guard sent three aircraft to search but could not send any surface vessels due to the storm.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The Coast Guard vessel Woodbrush left two and a half hours after the announcement, but was unable to reach the reported scene until 24 hours later.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

During the search, plenty of debris was lifted from the water, including life rafts and boats, but no survivors were found.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

An underwater survey of Edmund Fitzgerald's wreck was the first to discover a U.S. Navy aircraft whose instruments for searching submarines detected a magnetic anomaly caused by the ship and iron ore cargo.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

November 14—16.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

during the day, the Coast Guard examined the wreckage using sonar.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

In Sonar's images, two large pieces could be noted near each other at the bottom of the lake.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

November 22—25.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

day on the wreck did further research by a private entrepreneur, Seaward, Inc.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

In 1976, May 20—28.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

between days, the unmanned Navy submarine CURV III photographed the wreck with two black and white video cameras and one standard camera.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Pictures taken by CURV III could be found to have Fitzgerald snapped in two and the wreckage pieces resting at a depth of more than 160 metres, beyond the reach of a dive carried out with traditional instruments.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The bow section of the wreck is estimated to be 84 metres long and rests on the bottom facing right.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The aft section of the wreck rests upside down 52 metres from the bow section, turned 50° to the keel line of the bow section.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

All that remains of the central part of the wreck are richly warped pieces of metal and shenanigans formed by iron ore pellets.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Causes and contradictions When Fitzgerald disappeared, it was believed the ship had broken off at the surface due to metal fatigue caused by waves.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Due to similar surface degradations that occurred in the past, it was believed that the bow and stern sections might be up to miles apart.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

When the bow and stern of the wreck were found only a few tens of metres apart, it was concluded that the ship had broken off only after it hit the bottom.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The Coast Guard investigation showed, for its part, that inadequate hatch attachments had been the cause of the crash.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

According to the investigation, the fasteners did not close the hatches tightly enough; water was allowed to penetrate the cargo hold.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

According to the study, the leak occurred undetectably during the day, eventually causing a loss of buoyancy and balance.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Because of this, the ship would have pressed into the waves without warning.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The research rapote, however, proved contradictory.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The most common alternative theory posits that once the storm had taken the ship's radar equipment, the crew had been forced to steer the ship, relying on inaccurate maps.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Because of this, Fitzgerald had driven into the shallows, receiving damage to his bottom without the crew having even detected the matter.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Bottom damage eventually caused the ship to quickly sink.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The theory is supported by Fitzgerald's last radio message, from which there was no discernible concern for the condition of the ship.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Even if the theory is true, it is tricky to prove, as the wreck is buried in bottom mud up to its cargo lines, making it impossible to inspect the bottom damage to the bow section.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Memories of Edmund Fitzgerald's ship bell was lifted from the wreck on 4 July 1995 and placed after refurbishment at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point near the village of Paradise, Michigan.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald had already lost its anchor on the Detroit River before and is currently on display at the Doss Great Lakes Museum in Detroit.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

In the 24 hours after the shipwreck, the bell at the Mariners' Church in Detroit was rung 29 times, once in memory of each of those who perished in the shipwreck.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The Mariners' Church still holds a memorial service once a year, in connection with which the names of Fitzgerald's crew are read and a bell is rung after each name read.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Although the Fitzgerald is the last ship to sunk in the Great Lakes, its wreck does not rest alone amid large masses of water.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The Great Lakes have a phased maritime history, with thousands of ship wrecks resting at their bottom.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

In 1878—1898 alone, nearly 6000 ships were shipwrecked on the Great Lakes, a quarter of which were recorded as completely lost.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Several ships simply disappeared without a trace in the storm with their passengers and crew.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

All of the wrecks on the Great Lakes are protected sites; however, several of them have been made available for diving tourism.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Several sunken ships are located in some such wreck parks.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

In 2005, a project began to obtain a monument in Washington, D.C.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

to commemorate the sailors who perished on the Great Lakes.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Earlier, the campaign to declare November 10 as Great Lakes Seamen's Day (Great Lakes Mariners Day) foundered when the House of Representatives abolished the tradition of Memorial Days imposed by Congress.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

In 1986, Steven Dietz and Eric Peltoniemi wrote the musical Ten November to commemorate the sinking of Edmund Fitzgerald.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

In 2005, the musical was reworked into a new musical The Gales of November and was performed on the 30th anniversary of the Fitzgerald shipwreck at the Fitzgerald Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The musical's narrator was Kevin Kling and the performers included singers Prudence Johnson, Ruth MacKenzie and Claudia Smith.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The choir and orchestra were formed by Peter Ostroushko (violin and mandolin), Dan Chouinard (piano and accordion), Eric Peltoniemi (guitar), and Jeff Willkomm (bass guitar).


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Edmund Fitzgerald's crew The entire crew of Edmund Fitzgerald's 29-person crew lost their lives in the accident.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Their bodies have not been found.


Question: When did the steamer SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

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Question: What is the southernmost city in the Arctic?

Ellessea Island

Ellessea Island [elzmiənisland] [1] (,) is the northernmost island of the Canadian Arctic Islands, separated by the Smith Strait and the Kennedy Channel from Greenland on the east side of the island.


Question: What is the southernmost city in the Arctic?

Ellessea Island

[1] In terms of area (196235km2), it is the 10th largest island in the world and the third largest in Canada.


Question: What is the southernmost city in the Arctic?

Ellessea Island

In 2001, 168 people lived on the island.


Question: What is the southernmost city in the Arctic?

Ellessea Island

The three population centres on the island are Alert, Eureka and Grise Fiord.


Question: What is the southernmost city in the Arctic?

Ellessea Island

The island was discovered by Englishman William Baffin in 1616.


Question: What is the southernmost city in the Arctic?

Ellessea Island

[1] There are some musk oxen and relatively small-sized Pearynland deer living on Ellesmere Island.


Question: What is the southernmost city in the Arctic?

Ellessea Island

The ice-free area of the northwestern part of Ellessea Island contains Lake Hazen, one of the largest lakes in the Arctic.


Question: What is the southernmost city in the Arctic?

Ellessea Island

The vicinity of Lake Hazen is warmer than the environment [2] and most of the vegetation and fauna of the northwestern part of Ellessea Island is concentrated in the vicinity of this “Arctic oasis”.


Question: What is the southernmost city in the Arctic?

Ellessea Island

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Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

The written history of Hungarian territory begins with the Romans.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

The linguistic ancestors of the Hungarians arrived in the country in the early Middle Ages.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

An article about the origin of the Hungarians, or Madyars, and the earlier history of the transition to Hungary is told by the Hungarians.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

World migrations and the entry of Hungarians in Antiquity, around present-day Hungary there were two Roman provinces, Pannon and Daak.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

Rome lost Pannonia in the late 3rd century, after which it was first invaded by Germanic tribes, then by Slavs.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

Nomadic peoples such as Huns, Bulgars and Avaars spread out across the great lowlands.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

The Avaars ruled the region of the Carpathian Basin from the 5th century to the 7th century until they were defeated by the Franks led by Charles the Great around 800.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

The Franks took control of the western part of the region, where principalities of Slavic vassals, such as Croatia and Moravian, emerged.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

The southern and eastern parts were loosely under Byzantine and Bulgarian rule.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

[1] Hungarians lived in the 8th century still in the southwestern parts of present-day Ukraine, but they came to know their future homeland by war expeditions.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

When the Petsenegs attacked the Hungarians, these crossed the Carpathians under their chiefs Árpád and Kurszán, most likely in spring 895, and took control of the sparsely populated Great Lowland.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

When Kurszan died in 904, Árpád single-handedly reached the lead.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

The Hungarians destroyed the Moravian Empire, defeated the Margrave of Bavaria in 907, and also took Transdanubia.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

[2] [3] Over the next half century the Hungarians became known for their raiding expeditions, which they carried out along Western Europe.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

However, they suffered a decisive defeat to Otto I, King of Germany, in 955, and the raiding expeditions gradually ceased.In 973, Prince Géza sent an embassy to Emperor Otto II, and the following year he and his family converted to Christianity.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

His son Vajk was baptized as Tapan ().


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

[3] [4] The birth of the Hungarian state and the Middle Ages Tapani Saint I (István), who reigned from 997 to 1038, was crowned the first king of Hungary according to legend on Christmas Day 1000 at night.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

[5] At the same time, the first borders of the state went into effect, Esztergom was renamed as the capital, and Christianity became the official religion of the country.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

Reformations continued well into the reign of St.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

Tapani created a stable and strong state system on the Frankish model.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

He is considered the founder of the Hungarian state.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

Italian-born Gerard Sagredo, known as St. Gellért, arrived in the country as Tapani Saint converted the country to Christianity.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

Gellért wrote Hungary's first theological works, became a bishop and founded a cathedral and a monastery.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

There is also the earliest surviving Hungarian language inscription from these times, the foundation of a monastery founded in 1055 on the northern shore of Lake Balaton.


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History of Hungary

Upon King Stephen's death, the country became riven by infighting and was almost conquered by Germany and Byzantinks until László I the Saint, who came to power in 1077, restored order to the country.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

Bishop Gellért was proclaimed a saint with King Stephen on 20 August in 1083 at the instigation of King Saint László.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

[6] Today, August 20 is the Hungarian state holiday.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

King Andrew II was one of the leading figures of the Fifth Crusade in 1217—1218.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

[7] Although the crusade itself was militarily defeatist, in foreign policy it was profitable for Hungary and the king.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

After the reign of László I the Saint who successfully and confidently ruled, in the early 13th century, however, the economic and domestic political state of Hungary deteriorated to the extent that King Andrew II was forced to make a golden bulla in 1222 that defined the rights of nobles and nobles.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

However, rights were soon allowed to recede, as the Mongols (Tatars) invaded Hungary during the years 1241—1242.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

Villages and towns — Buda and Pest among them — were subjected to looting and destruction.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

King Béla IV himself was forced to flee the Battle of Muh and live a short period in hiding, until the Mongol high khan Ögödei unexpectedly died and Batu Khan, who led the war effort in Hungary, withdrew his troops from the country, returning to Mongolia.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

King Béla IV returned to Buda and set about reviving the ravaged country.


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History of Hungary

[8] In this case, an extensive defensive system of stone castles began to be built, which today extends to the neighbouring Hungarian side.


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History of Hungary

In the second half of the 13th century Buda was made the capital of the kingdom.


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History of Hungary

With the extinction of the Árpád dynasty in 1301, Charles Robert of the House of Anjou became ruler of the country.


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History of Hungary

[9] At the beginning of the 14th century, domestic and economic crises in Hungary renewed and only Charles Robert gained control of the situation.


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History of Hungary

He was succeeded on the throne by his son Louis I the Great who expanded by his war effort the Hungarian Empire stabilized by his father.


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History of Hungary

Sigismund Luxembourgish upon his rise to King of Hungary also succeeded in obtaining the throne of Bohemia and later the Holy German-Roman Empire.


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History of Hungary

He tried to prevent the bifurcation of the Church and pacify the intervals between the kings of France and England, as well as waging semi-successful defensive battles with the Ottomans threatening Hungary's borders.


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History of Hungary

In the middle of the 15th century, again due to renewed ruler disputes, János Hunyadi, a nobleman and knight named as regent, defeated with his army the invasion of Nándorfehérvár by the Ottoman Empire (now.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

at the Battle of Belgrade) in 1456.


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History of Hungary

His son Matias (Mátyás) Corvinus became king in 1458 and during his time Hungary was at the height of its political and cultural influence.


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History of Hungary

[9] Buda was then the leading centre of Renaissance culture.


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History of Hungary

During Matias' reign, Hungary included countries such as Lower Austria, Styria, Moravian and Silesia.


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History of Hungary

At the death of Matias, the Hungarians also felt justice died, as King Matias was perceived as the fairest king.


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History of Hungary

Internal disputes arose and the nobility subjugated the peasants with great grips.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

In 1514, the people rose up under György Dózsa in revolt, but it was defeated.


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History of Hungary

[10] The conditions of the earth just became miserable.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

The Ottoman Empire prepared for a new war and in the 1526 Battle of Mohács, the Hungarians suffered a severe defeat.


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History of Hungary

In addition, the young king Lajos II was assassinated after a battle, due to which extensive disputes broke out between the nobles, as well as chaos.


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History of Hungary

Buda was left completely unprotected and thus the Ottoman made a looting sight into the city from which the Queen and Court were able to evacuate to Bratislava moments before their arrival.


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History of Hungary

Buda was not permanently occupied by the Turks until 1541.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

Hungary fragmented into three parts: the western parts came under the control of the Habsburgs, Transylvania became an autonomous principality paying taxes to the Ottoman people, and other parts passed under the rule of the Turks, where again Hungarians and Turks continually clashed by conquering smaller and larger castles from each other for about 150 years.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

Fragmentation was also facilitated by the divisiveness of Hungarian nobles.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

For a long time (besides the sultan) Hungary had two concurrent, disputing kings, János Szapolyai, Prince of Transylvania, as well as Ferdinand I of Habsburg, a later German-Roman emperor.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

[10] Also in the 1130s, 1310s and 1440s Hungary had two simultaneous kings for a short period.


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History of Hungary

With the Turks, however, many good things also came to Hungary.


Question: When is Hungary founded?

History of Hungary

For example, coffee, peppers, corn, in addition to most of the current spas in Hungary were built during the Turks.


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History of Hungary

Under the rule of the Habsburgs in 1686, the combined armies of the Western powers drove the Turks from Buda and 1699 from all of Hungary.


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History of Hungary

The Habsburgs came to power and also assumed the title of King of Hungary.


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History of Hungary

However, at no time did Hungary formally belong to the Holy German-Roman Empire under their rule.