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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 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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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] Bombing 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 deployed 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 blast puppets (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 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, 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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Navy 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 fire 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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An 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 avenges 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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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 Allied air forces 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 take 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 part blockaded Falais, 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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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 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 post-war 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 Wars of Disintegration of Yugoslavia were a long series of wars fought in the former Yugoslavia on the Balkan Peninsula since 1991.


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The war was fought in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, as well as southern Serbia.


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The cause of the wars was a disagreement among Yugoslav nationalists over the country's governance, economy and division of territories.


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In particular, Kosovo Albanians, Slovenia and Croatia wanted to get rid of Yugoslavia, and Serbia wanted to maintain a unified Serb state even with violence.


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The backdrop of the wars was the patchwork habitation of different peoples due to the history of the region, but their immediate cause was stark nationalism.


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The collapse of Yugoslavia was also significantly aided by the sluggish economy and the faster collapse of socialism.


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Slobodan Milošević, a socialist and conservative Serb politician by semi-democratic means, plotted himself into the leadership of his country.


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Milošević took advantage of, among others, the bigot-nationalist Serb policies pushed by Vojislav Šešelj to create Greater Serbia, in which other Yugoslav nations were seen as enemies trampling Serb rights.


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So, in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, other peoples were violently driven out by the Serb-led federal army, police and paramilitary forces known as Cheetniks.


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The peoples of the conquered territories were also subject to war crimes, including murder, torture, burning and pillage.


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[1] These violent mass deportations were referred to as ethnic cleansing [2].


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Ethnonationalism also rose in regions seeking to get rid of Yugoslavia, and so also other nations soon began to carry out their own ethnic cleansing.


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In the Bosnian War, Croats sought the creation of Greater Croatia, ethnically cleansing.


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The Yugoslav Wars were the bloodiest battles in Europe since World War II, with 100,000—300,000 people killed.


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The wars of disintegration were similar to the Civil War.


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Foreign powers intervened in the wars some times and peacekeepers were sent to the region.


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The break-up of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia broke down into Serb domination efforts and the desire of Croats and Slovenes to secede from the federation.


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In the beginning, the powerful central power kept the mutually quarreling peoples in one state.


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Background of the breakup of Yugoslavia The territory of the former Yugoslavia was home to many peoples [3] with different histories behind them.


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For example, Croats were predominantly Roman Catholics and Serbs Orthodox [4].


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In addition, the country was inhabited by Muslims from the period of Ottoman rule.


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Serb Četniks and army terrorized Albanians in the Balkan Wars and Croats in World War I.


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The Slovenes, Croats and Serbs were united into a single Kingdom after World War I.


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Other peoples also came along, including Kosovo Albanians.


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In the first inter-world war Yugoslavia, ardent Serb and Croat politicians clashed, leading to a shooting in parliament in 1928.


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This is why the king seized power.


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The predominantly Serb-led Yugoslavia broke up with the German invasion in 1941, and the country was divided between the Axis powers.


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The occupation created a civil war.


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Ante Pavelic, leader of the fascist Ustaša organisation who rose to the leadership of Croatia, killed tens of thousands of Serbs, Gypsies and Jews in concentration camps [5].


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The Serb Cetniks massacred Croat civilians and partisans and sought to create Greater Serbia with deportations [6].


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Thus, more people died in the Yugoslav civil war during the Second World War than were killed by the occupiers [7].


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But the communist partisans won a confused civil war, and thus partisan leader Josip Broz Tito created the Second Yugoslavia, which was a socialist federation made up of six republics.


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Tito, in accordance with Soviet instructions, sought to establish equality for the peoples, but did not mention Muslims, Hungarians or Albanians in his Bihac Declaration [8].


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He created his own kind of socialism, quarreled with the Soviet Union and opened the country's borders early on to the West.


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Nationalism of different peoples was often raised [9] [10], although it was tried to be curbed [11].


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Tito, a rather skilled politician who ruled as dictator, was unable to solve the country's complex nationality problem [12] [13], which remained largely hidden in the 1950s but began to emerge in the early 1960s [14].


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The opposition was prominently Croatian anti-Serb separatism [15] and Serbian Grand Serbianism [16].


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Serb ultra-nationalism was supported, though not directly supported [14] until 1966 by Aleksandar Ranković, chief of the Yugoslav hardline secret police [17].


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The Rankovicians opposed the intentions to liberalise the Slovenian and Croatian economies [14].


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The culture, religion and standard of living of peoples varied [18] [19] from one region to another, creating inherent disputes over the economy, augmented by memories of the wrongs suffered throughout history.


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Tito overthrew the nationalists, including the Croatian Spring in the early 1970s [20], as well as the corresponding movement in Slovenia.


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In retrospect, it has been said in some respects that Tito's socialist policy of denying national sentiments and religion suffocated political thought so that the resulting pressure later erupted as strong bigoted nationalism [21].


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On the other hand, the various means of force and coercive use by the authorities during Tito also excluded from later thinking, especially in Serbia, the idea of peaceful solutions, especially since already under Tito the army officers had the highest number of Serbs.


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Equally well, however, the War of Dissolution of Yugoslavia can be seen as a collision of various nationalisms that would have arisen without Tito or without Milošević.


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After Tito died in the 1980s, he began to be criticised, especially in Serbia, as Tito had divided Serb territories into other state republics.


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At the same time, the country was mired in an economic crisis that worsened throughout the 1980s.


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In 1981, Serbia crushed by force of arms the Kosovo Albanians riots.


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In 1986, traditional Serb nationalism was on the rise.


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Serb nationalists were most interested in the emptying of Kosovo due to the exodus of Serbs.


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They watched Kosovo Albanians commit Serb genocide and the “holy land” falling into Albanian hands.


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Slobodan Milošević [22], who rose to the leadership of the Serbian Communist Party, began to push the Kosovo Serb cause with impassioned speeches.


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In his speeches, Milošević combined populist nationalism, socialism and Serb traditional Orthodoxy faith [23].


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Milošević purged the Communist Party of Serbia of its opponents, took control of the media, created a cult of personnel for himself during mass rallies, and gained quite wide support.


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In 1988, a vigorous independence movement was underway in Slovenia, which in part sprung from the country's central European tradition and links with the West.


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An old nationalism rose in Croatia in 1989.


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At the end of the 1980s, Milošević, ridden with nationalism, crushed the autonomy of Vojvodina and Kosovo, with the federal army effectively siding with the Serbs.


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Milošević, though driven by force, Serb-led Yugoslavia and/or Greater Serbia intimidated Croats and Slovenes into independence.


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There were Serb nationalists even more radical than Milošević in opposition in Serbia in 1990, such as Vuk Draskovic and Vojislav Seselj.


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The state republics' power aspirations collapsed the authority of the federal government in the spring of 1991, when leaders of the state republics tried in vain to seek a political solution.


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Independence of Croatia and Slovenia The United States and the EU opposed the independence of Slovenia and Croatia in advance, as did the Federal Army and many other institutions of the Yugoslav administration.


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The Federal Council of Presidents was paralyzed and the only powerful political player was the communist-nationalist Serb clique led by Slobodan Milosevic.


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The Federal Parliament declared that the military was blocking attempts at independence by the republics.


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Croatia and Slovenia declared independence on 25 June 1991, [24].


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The Federal Army sent armour from Croatia to retake Croatian border posts and airfields.


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The purpose of the concessional military operation was mainly to show the power of the Federal Army.


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The Federal Army, with success, took over most of the border posts.


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But the Slovenes had organized a fairly effective territorial defense, defeating the Federal Army forces in many places as early as 28 June.


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The Slovenes blocked the panzer roads with trucks in suitable locations and blockaded the conscripts of the Federal Army in barracks.


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The Federal Army responded by bombing Slovenian radio and TV stations and shelling from the air [25] trucks as roadblocks.


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The Serb-led Federal Army's conscript, primarily composed of conscripts and non-Serbs, lacked the willingness to fight, and some 2700 soldiers from the blockaded units lacked maintenance.


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As the fighting lasted, lively diplomacy began, leading to the first ceasefire in theory as early as July 1.


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Fighting still continued until 4 July.


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The Slovene War lasted only a short time and caused quite small losses on the sides and otherwise, [26] because Milošević did not seriously want to consider the Lesser Serb Slovenia part of his country.


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Afterwards, Milošević's national-zealous Serbia began to create, first covertly, but as time went on, increasingly openly, Greater Serbia on Croatian territory [27], driving Croats out of Croatian Serb territories by violence.


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The Croatian administration led by Franjo Tudjman, especially Defense Minister Gojko Susak, had a partly bigoted attitude against the Serbs.


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In a couple of cases, extremist croats also targeted violence against Serbs, precipitating the conflict.


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But on the other hand, Franjo Tudjman wavered between war and peace because he belittled the Serb desire to fight Croatia and believed in an easy peaceful solution.


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Partly this was due to the fact that the Croats lacked weapons [1].


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In early July, the Serbs started a continuous war in Croatia, where they cleared the village of Celije and Tenja was fought for a long time with small numbers, but drastically.


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These two incidents were small compared to later battles.


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Subsequently, Serb guerrillas attacked many villages, driving people away.


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Fighting began to intensify in mid-July, and the casualty rate and influx of refugees from the cleansed Serb village grew by the day.


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The war began to expand into new territories.


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Croatia's light mainly paramilitary forces fought heavily armed Serbs and were unable to prevent further expansion of Serb territory.


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The Serbs drove the Croat civilians from their homes, burning, blowing up, robbing, capturing, torturing and killing.


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Meanwhile, Croat leader Tudjman hesitated and stalled in his retaliatory measures against the Serbs.


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The incident, which took place in the village of Dalji in early August, was a step in an increasingly brutal warfare.


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The Croat village of Kijevo in Krajina was “purged” with the direct support of the federal army when panzers shelled and the air force bombed the village.


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Federal Army units brought into Croatia and Serb paramilites blockaded the large city of Vukovar.


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It began to be shelled fiercely with artillery.


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The city fought tenaciously for months though it was defended by only a small force because the Serb fighting motivation was nonexistent.


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In mid-September Croats began attacking the Yugoslav Federal Army barracks in the country [1], which brought the war into the open.


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The Croats managed to capture many barracks and received a fairly large number of weapons from them, which over time facilitated the difficult situation in Croatia.


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By September, the fronts had already roughly advanced to their final positions [28].


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In November, Vukovar, surrounded by Serbs, surrendered, murdered and raped by Serbs, taking those who had defended the city to concentration camps in Serbia.


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On the other hand, the Croats themselves began to carry out more intensive ethnic cleansing in some areas, including mass killings against Serbs in Gospic and Sisak regions and the looting of Serb homes by the Croat police.


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Franjo Tudjman's regime is believed to have looked at these incidents through fingers because at least the HDZ extremists supported an ethnically pure Croatia.


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The Federal Army was now openly engaged to help its soldiers surrounded in barracks.


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In retaliation for the blockade of the barracks, the Serbs blockaded Dubrovnik, which was located on the southern coast of Yugoslavia, shelling it very violently at times.


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The Croats began to thrive in the war in December 1991, which contributed to driving the Serbs to the 3 January 1992 ceasefire [28].


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The United Nations oversaw the ceasefire, but local military action among Croatian and Serb forces continued in some neighborhoods.


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Bosnian war As recently as 1990, Radovan Karadzic said there would be no Greater Serbia being created in Bosnia.


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Bosnian Serbs advocated Bosnia remaining part of Yugoslavia, and Croats and Muslims secession from it [29].


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In 1991, Radovan Karadzic, the Serb's bigoted nationalist leader, threatened the federal army to block Bosnia's independence, and at one point also threatened Muslims with destruction.


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Croat propaganda was as fierce as Serb propaganda, and Croats also aimed at ethnic cleansing.


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While Muslim nationalism was degrees milder, Muslim leader Aija Izetbegovic advocated war if it would take Muslims to independence.


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Serb propaganda painted a horror picture of Bosniakes/Muslims as enemies of Serbs, with Serbs and other nationalities isolated themselves from each other.


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The Serbs decided to end most military activities in Croatia in early 1992, having gained approximately recapture of Serb-majority territories from Croatia.


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On the other hand, the Serbs desperately needed troops in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the situation was drifting towards a war that was predicted to be long and difficult as it was.


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Different nationalities had already begun to establish their own small gun guards in 1991.


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In 1991, the party led by Karadzic declared the vast Serb territories autonomous [30], with the support of the Federal Army.


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The first pre-war incident that resulted in casualties occurred in Visegrad in November 1991, when Muslims and Croats stopped a detachment of the Federal Army for a short time [31].


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Bosnian Serbs dropped out of the referendum on Bosnian independence.


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In early March, a Serb wedding procession was shot, one was killed and a priest wounded.


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The Serbs erected street closures and fired into the air in response to the incident, but soon dismantled the street brackets.


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On 2 January 1992, Muslim-led Bosnia and Herzegovina announced it wanted to break away from Serbia and gained independence on 5 April.


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Minor armed incidents occurred as early as March in Bosanski Brod, among others.


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Serb paramilitaries later, with the support of the federal army that arrived on the scene, brutally cleared Bijeljina in early April, killing people and driving the rest on the run, looting Muslim homes.


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Serbs soon invaded eastern Bosnia, clearing Zvornik, Foča, Višegrad, Kupres, among others, and began creating Serb corridors in eastern and northern Bosnia and Herzegovina.


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The Muslim and Croat culture was to be eradicated from the territory intended for annexation to Serbia.


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What was going on was ethnic cleansing, which has often been described as genocide.


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In general, Serb nationalists threatened with killing e.g.


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throwing a bomb inside the family house of a Muslim or Croat, thus frightening the occupants of the house into escape.


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If it was a detached house, the nationalists blew up the house at night.


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But just as well Serbs might have killed, tortured or raped [32] and taken to a death camp to suffer hunger and violence [33].


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For example, in Banja Luka, there were murders of Muslims and Croats that were not investigated by the police.


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Before deportation, a Muslim or Croat had to pay a large sum of money to the authorities.


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Those on foot on the run were sometimes escorted to plunge into the ravine.


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Those expelled from villages and towns were rounded up by trucks and buses for train transport [34].


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Train transport of deportees took place without food and water in cattle wagons [35], where especially children, babies [36] and elderly people died amid piles of faeces [37].


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People transported in cattle wagons could be robbed by soldiers [38].


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Serbs blockaded many Muslim and Croat cities, among them Sarajevo as early as 7 April.


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Although the UN declared a Serb-led stub Yugoslavia under economic sanctions, this did not stop Bosnian Serbs violently driving Muslims and Croats from their homes.


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In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serb guerrilla chiefs such as Arkan, supported by a Serb army commanded by Ratko Mladić, raged.


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The Serbs took over 70% of Bosnia and Herzegovina in April.


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The Muslim, or Bosniak, army suffered weapons shortages.


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Milosevic reacted to economic sanctions in the West by appointing Milan Panic, a businessman who lived in the United States, as prime minister of stubby Yugoslavia [39].


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In the summer of 1992, Bosnian Croats also declared themselves an autonomous community and received some weapons from Croatia [30].


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They began to recapture territories from the Bosniaks, although they were officially in league with these against the Serbs.


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Croats began the ethnic cleansing of Bosniaks, often Muslims, as early as the spring of 1992.


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Subsequently, there were many skirmishes and purges initiated by Croats, which allowed Croat power to spread across Bosnia.


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The Bosniaks began retaliating at the end of 1992 against the Croats.


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For tactical reasons, Milošević declared the Bosnian Republika Srpska to be detached from Serbia, and said disconnected from the Bosnian violence, but secretly aided the Bosnian Serbs.


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Western countries did not believe Serbia was ignorant and separate from the Bosnian war.


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The UN started helping Bosnia and Herzegovina's Croats and Muslims as early as 1992, but on the whole the aid was pretty ineffective.


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Serbs, among other things, taxed relief supplies taken to the blockaded cities.


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Western and UN action to contain the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina was half-hearted and ineffective, and many Western countries who wanted peace were agonised by the slow actions of international organisations.


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The UN arms embargo mainly helped the richly armed Serb army [30].


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In hindsight, the West's stance has been said to have been due, among other things, to its belief that the Serbs would win the Bosnian war.


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NATO, for example, did not want to get embroiled in a guerrilla war against Serbs in the mountainous Balkans.


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Even some of the Western UN officers may have been in favour of the Serbs.


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Part of the war was considered to be the fault of other nationalities as well.


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Russia supported Serbia for historical reasons.


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Serbs established concentration camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina where people were killed, beaten with a kepei [40], tortured [41] and held in hunger [42].


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This was first revealed to West in Newsday magazine in August 1992 [43].


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Muslim women were beaten and raped in camps [44], some of which were set up for a purpose.


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Serb snipers massacred civilians on the streets of Sarajevo and grenades fired from nearby mountains into the city sometimes hit bread lines, killing dozens.


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In 1993, Bosnian Croats began an open, extensive war against Muslims, committing ethnic cleansing.


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The main stage was in the valley of the Lashva River.


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The most famous purge was in the village of Ahmic.


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The Muslims were now severely outnumbered.


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Croats and Serbs sought to divide Bosnia [30], and for Muslims there was no peace in 1993 either.


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In Bosnia and Herzegovina, organized crime flourished in many regions.


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In addition, the motive for violence perpetrated by paramilitary cetniks was usually criminal, including access to loot, sometimes ultra-nationalism.


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Often the war in Bosnia has been seen as ethnic, but it was more associated with a certain kind of nationalist politics in which nationalist parties of different nations struggled for hegemony.


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In 1993, Serbia experienced hyperinflation and large protests [39] and the first opposition front called Depos was established in the country [39].


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In stubby Yugoslav territory, nationalist Serbs massacred and otherwise harassed opponents of the government's war policy.


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Many large demonstrations were staged by opponents of the regime during the war.


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For example, the bigoted pro-Serb opposition politician Vuk Drašković considered the Bosnian war futile, and so he was arrested and assaulted [39].


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In February 1994, Bosnian Croats and Bosniaks settled their dispute.


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Around the same time, Serbs were cleansing their territory of Muslims and other ethnic minorities as drastically as they did in the first wave of cleansing in 1992.


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After growing tired of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslav Slobodan Milošević withdrew his support from the Bosnian Serbs led by Radovan Karadžić in 1994.


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This decisively weakened the position of the Serbs in the region.


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To top it off, the West had begun secretly supporting Croatia because of fears of the expansion of Serb influence in the region by Serbs on good terms with Russia.


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Serbs overran the blockaded town of Srebrenica in the summer of 1995, killing thousands of Muslim men.


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When NATO bombed Serb targets in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbs took UN soldiers hostage and clamped down on NATO to halt air strikes.


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In the autumn of 1995, intensifying Croats and Muslims attacked violently in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.


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The Serbs soon found themselves in a predicament.


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Serb civilians fled at the behest of their leaders because they feared ethnic cleansing by Croats and Muslims.


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Shortly after this, a grenade fired by Serbs killed dozens in the bread queue in Sarajevo, and NATO began air strikes in Bosnia.


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The peacekeepers had been withdrawn from the vast area and the Serbs were no longer able to resist NATO.


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On 20 September, the Serbs withdrew heavy weapons from the surroundings of Sarajevo, and peace was made on 14 December.


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War crimes committed by Croats in Krajina in the final phase of the war were printed with villasella, according to Serbs and also neutral critics, [45].


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Kosovo War Already in 1995 there were isolated attacks on Kosovo Serb police and Serb civilians.


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In January 1996, a series of attacks were carried out on Serb police officers, Serb authorities and Serb refugee camps in western Kosovo.


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In this case, the invaders declared themselves to be the Albanian guerrilla movement Kosovo Liberation Army (UÇK).


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Kosovo's moderate, pro-passive resistance Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova believed in the beginning the UÇK guerrillas were Serbian-backed provocateurs.


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The Serbian regime declared the movement terrorists and strengthened its forces in the region.


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UÇK's confidence in the eyes of Albanian civilians rose.


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The UÇK had foreign fighters, predominantly Albanians from the United States and other Western countries, not a single one from Islamic countries as rumored.


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The official Albanian administration in Kosovo did not support the UÇK, but also did not close the guerrilla camps.


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UÇK grew between 1997 and 1999 and was at its strongest in 1997—98.


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The movement was militarily weak, as the armament was predominantly small arms.


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The movement, according to different estimates, had anywhere from a few hundred to a few tens of thousand members.


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The UÇK finally managed to take over about half of Kosovo by March 1998, then the centre of its power was the village of Prekaz in the Drenica region.


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Subsequently, the Serbs defeated the UÇK; on the Serb side, the guerrillas were fought by the army and special police officers.


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Albanian civilians were massacred by Serbs, and the UÇK also committed human rights crimes.


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It also killed Albanians it suspected were Serb-friendly.


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In the summer of 1998, Serbs invaded Orahovac with the intention of ethnically cleansing the region of all Albanians, and the UÇK was forced to withdraw.


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The Serbs killed the captured non-Serbs in Orahovac.


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The Serb actions spread into the public eye, and thousands of Albanians flowed in from the world to help UÇK.


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The movement reorganized itself after this defeat, and set up training camps on the Albanian side.


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In early 1998, the United States removed UÇK from its list of terrorist organizations.


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The United States and European countries are believed to have helped UÇK secretly from the beginning.


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The UÇK struck Serb military and civilian targets, to which the Serbs responded with great grips.


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In the winter of 1999, bodies were found near the remote village of Račak that Serbs thought were UÇK guerrillas dressed in civilian clothes, but Albanians believe Albanian civilians killed by Serbs.


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In March 1999, the Yugoslav army and other security forces began a full war against the UÇK.


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The UÇK quickly lost territory, and most of the fighters who got on the run lost to Albania, with a few thousand guerrillas from the organisation remaining in Kosovo.


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NATO offensive NATO led by Javier Solana wanted to prevent bloodwork on Albanians.


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It demanded from Yugoslavia during negotiations in Rambouillet, France, the right of movement of foreign military vehicles throughout Yugoslavia.


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The Serbs had agreed to the arrival of UN troops in Kosovo.


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Tough conditions imposed by the West led to Yugoslavia being unable to accept the Rambouillet Agreement.


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When NATO considered the persecution of Albanians to be under way, it began bombing Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999.


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This is why the Serbs decided to drive out the Kosovo Albanians, which had been talked about for a long time.


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Some of the Albanians fled themselves, fearing the Serbs.


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The world saw how NATO sort of provoked the Serbs with its airstrikes to drive out the Albanians.


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The Serbs themselves claimed the Albanians were spooked by NATO airstrikes.


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The Kosovo War began.


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Serb police and paramilitaries operating in Kosovo drove hundreds of thousands of Albanians by violence, killing and ransacking out of their homes.


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For the Serbs, the expulsion of Albanians had the benefit of eliminating the possibility of even a small UÇK in the exiled regions, but at the same time it was politically absurd because it turned world opinion against the Serbs.


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For a long time, NATO airstrikes seemed to have no effect on the Yugoslav military, and certainly not on the deportations and bloodwork against Albanians.


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For the duration of the war, the UÇK remained very weak militarily.


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NATO targeted its attacks on Serb infrastructure with the intention of making life difficult for Serbs, thus turning Serbs to a rebellion spirit against their rule.


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Missiles also accidentally hit the necks of fleeing Albanians and Serb civilian targets.


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NATO bombed the main building of Radio-Televizija Srbije, Serbia's broadcasting and television broadcaster, on 23 April 1999, considered a war crime by Amnesty International among others, and on 7 May the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, which the United States itself considered an accident.


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The bombing killed three Chinese journalists and it caused aspiration in China.


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The Serb's defensive will was high.


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They were human shields for, among other things, holding rock concerts on bridges.


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The Serb propaganda war was skillful: TV showed how old grannies danced down atop the ultra-modern stealth fighter F-117 “Nighthawk.”


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Otherwise NATO was allowed to conduct its airstrikes fairly freely.


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The Serbs did not dare with their planes to take off in the air, but hid their aircraft.


Question: What year was the Bosnian war?

Wars of disintegration of Yugoslavia

Some of the world thought NATO airstrikes were justified; some strongly condemned them.


Question: What year was the Bosnian war?

Wars of disintegration of Yugoslavia

Some NATO generals, too, had beforehand feared Serbs would retaliate against Albanians with NATO air strikes.


Question: What year was the Bosnian war?

Wars of disintegration of Yugoslavia

Over time, the air strikes intensified.


Question: What year was the Bosnian war?

Wars of disintegration of Yugoslavia

NATO, with a smaller number of flights than the Gulf War, had succeeded in destroying the maintenance and combat morale of the Yugoslav Serb army.


Question: What year was the Bosnian war?

Wars of disintegration of Yugoslavia

Now Yugoslav and Serb leader Milošević was threatened by a ground invasion of Belgrade by NATO forces and the overthrow of Milošević.


Question: What year was the Bosnian war?

Wars of disintegration of Yugoslavia

Eventually Milošević bent on peace and cancelled the expulsion of the Albanians when NATO threatened to invade Serbia with ground troops.


Question: What year was the Bosnian war?

Wars of disintegration of Yugoslavia

Milošević's overthrow in the late 2000 ended the most violent period in Serbian history, but smaller clashes of the type of demonstration and weak guerrilla warfare between different nationalities have existed since then.