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Ancient Athens

Some sources suggest that there may have been as many as 180,000 inhabitants.


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Of these, there were perhaps about 70,000 citizens.


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In addition to citizens, there were Metoiks and slaves living in Athens and Attica.


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The Metoiks were either free-born non-Greeks or Greeks without civil rights.


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Guests were required to register as Metoiks or else they became slaves.


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Metoiks were taxed more strictly than citizens.


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They were not allowed to own land and they were often engaged in commercial occupations.


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[9] Greek slaves were theoretically the property of their lord, but in practice they enjoyed the protection of laws.


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They were not different from free citizens and they did partially the same sheet work as free people.


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There were also state slaves who existed as clerks, secretaries, prison guards, and police officers.


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Worst of all were slaves working in mines where mortality was so high that there was no longer a few months to live.


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Child labour was extensively used in the mines.


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[9] Infant mortality was also huge among citizens, probably about 70% of children died before their one-year anniversary.


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The Kolonos of Athens from Agoraios has recently been found dating back to 350 BCE.


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a well containing the bodies of 175 toddlers and 75 dogs, as well as an ivory knife handle.


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It has been suspected that the children would have been sacrificed to the goddess Aphrodide Urania, or that they were victims of some epidemic.


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[9] Culture The period between the end of the Persian wars and the Macedonian conquest was the heyday of Athens in both literature, philosophy (see: Greek philosophy) and the arts (see: Greek theatre).


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Some of the most prominent figures in Western culture lived in Athens during that period: the playwrights Aeskhylos, Aristofanes, Euripides and Sophocles, the philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, the historians Herodotus, Thukydides and Xenofon, the poet Simonides and the sculptor Feidias.


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The leading statesman of the time was Pericles, who utilized the funds of the Delos Maritime Union in the construction of the Parthenon and many other monuments in the city.


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The city became, in Pericle's words, the whole “Hella civilization center”.


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Question: When is Zonianá founded?

Zonianá

Zonianá () is a village in Greece, as well as a municipal unit of the municipality of Mylopótamos (Δημοτική Ενότητα Αωνιανών, “Dimotikí Enótita Zonianón”) and a former independent village municipality.


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It is located in the Réthymno regional unit, in the region of Crete.


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The population of the municipal unit is 1117 (in 2011).


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[1] [2] Zonianá was an independent village municipality until the end of 2010.


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In early 2011, through the regional government reform known as the Kallikrates Plan, it was merged into the municipality of Mylopótamos together with Geropótamos and Kouloúkonas.


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[3] Farming and livestock farming are the main livelihoods of the inhabitants of Zonianá.


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[4] Etymology and mythology The name of Zonianá refers to Zeus, the overgod of Greek mythology.


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[5] Zeus was born and raised on the island of Crete.


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[6] Zeus is also said to be buried on the island of Crete.


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One of the alleged burial sites is the Zou Cave in Zonianá on the southeastern slope of Kefála Hill.


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The roof of the cave has collapsed, possibly as a result of the earthquake.


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Let's tell them the cave is full of gold.


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Still others say Zeus is immortal.


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[7] According to one story, a shepherd named Zas (genitive form: Zou) was herding his herd of sheep and goats in the area of the present village of Zonianá.


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The Zonianá region grew up around that time a duck forest.


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Zas watered his flock at the Diskurioú Spring, located three kilometres from the present-day centre of Zonianá.


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Zas once lost sight of a goat named Amálthi, but then found it in a small spring drinking water.


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After the discovery, Zas took up residence at the site and named it Zoulianá after himself.


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Today, the southeastern part of the village of Zonianá bears the Zoulianá name.


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The source found by the Amálthi goat received the name Neró ts' Amálthis (, Finnish: “Water of Amálth”).


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Since then, the locality has also been known as Zou to Lákko.


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[8] According to Greek mythology on Mount Ida (now.


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also Psiloreítis) inhabited Idaan dactyls whose job it was to protect Zeus when he was small.


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Many different stories are told about the genesis of dactyles.


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According to one story, the nymph Ankhiale, upon touching the land of Oaksia, ran out of the land ten men called the Idaic dactyls.


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Flowing through the Zonianánki, the MyLopótamos River was known in antiquity as the Oaksis.


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The river has its origins in the Psiloreítis.


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The land of Oaksia may also mean the ancient Aksos under which the Zonianánk region came under.


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[7] Geography Zonianá is part of the municipality of Mylopótamos, the regional unit of Réthymno and the region of Crete.


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[4] The former independent village municipality of Zonianá had an area of 17,926 square kilometres.


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Neighboring municipalities of Zonianá, annexed to Mylopótamos in 2011, were Kouloúkonas to the west and north, Anógeia to the east and Tympáki, which was part of the former Iraklion Prefecture, to the south.


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It is 43 kilometres from Zonianá to Iraklion and 52 kilometres to Réthymno.


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[9] Mount Ida, the highest mountain in Crete [10], is located in the concourse of Zonianá.


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[4] History An Italian born in Crete [11] Francesco Barozzi mentions in 1577 that present-day Zonianá would have been separate from the Kingdom of Axos and Anógeia and known as So.


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However, the first document concerning Zonianá does not date back to 1821.


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The population of Zonianá has always been entirely Greek, even though Crete has been conquered by Saracens, Venetians and Ottoman, among others.


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[12] In the struggle against Ottoman rule, the Zonianás took part in the 1770 revolt in Sfakiá on the island's southern coast under the command of shipowner Daskalogiánnis.


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Daskalogiánnis was meant to receive help from the Russians, who were meant to distract the Ottoman elsewhere.


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The Ottoman put down the rebellion and Daskalogiánnis was killed.


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[13] In 1821, a Zonianá resident named M. Melitakas fought against the Ottomans in Crete, but was wounded in battle in Brahímo, i.e., present-day Peramá [14] and later died.


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[12] Twenty Zonianás set out in 1866 to take refuge in the mountains with the intention of reaching as far as Arkád Monastery.


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There, 17 of them were killed.


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Together with some Mylopótamosans, the inhabitants of Zonianá defeated the Ottoman Omer pašša Latas at Péra Halépa and obtained as loot a cannon which they hid in Zonianá.


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Today, the cannon is on display at the Chaniá Maritime Museum.


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The next day, the Ottoman broke the resistance of the Zonianás and reached the locality.


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The Ottoman interrogated locals, but no one acknowledged where the cannon was.


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After this, the Ottoman began killing people and burned Zonianá.


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[5] Osmani Kumandar Redic Pashša, like other villages, attempted to build a tower in the village of Kavkaloúd in November 1867, but failed against the hangout of the Zonianás.


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This resulted in the burning of Zonianá again, for the second time within six months.


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Later, the village was burned, according to one song, for a third time.


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The song states that even if the village is burned three hundred times, the Zonianás would not obey the Aghas.


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After a few years, the Zonianás, together with the inhabitants of the Malevís Valley and Mylopótamos, blockaded the Ottoman people in Iraklion.


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[5] As part of Greece, Thirteen residents of Zonianá died during the Balkan Wars in the early 20th century.


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During World War II, 19 Zonianás were killed.


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Again in the Greek Civil War, four people were killed.


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[5] Zonianá and its neighboring communities are known for their sheep thefts, [15] which are even considered an acceptable tradition among the local population.


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Because of sheep theft, sheep herders and farmers regularly quarrel.


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In 1996—97, the Zonianás clashed over sheep theft with the Peramáans and the Greek state security unit Eidikí Katastaltikí Antitromokratikí Monáda () was forced to systematically disarm Zonianás.


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[16] Sheep thieves, under threat of legal action, have a habit of going to swear their innocence in front of the miracle-performing icon of St. Jorgos Church, north-east of Aksos.


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[15] In November 2007, 42 Zonianá men were arrested in raids carried out by Greek police on suspicion of robberies, drug offences, attempted murder, as well as unlicensed weapons.


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In a trial that began in April 2009 in the Greek capital Athens, the men are accused of possessing explosives and weapons, as well as growing and selling cannabis.


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In addition, Zoniana men have been robbing ATMs using bulldozers.


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[12] Some of the men were additionally charged with attempted murder, having reportedly fired AK-47 assault rifles at police officers who had been searching Zonianá for drug smugglers.


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In the shooting, one police officer was permanently paralyzed and two others more leniently.


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After the shooting incident, Zonianá was besieged for weeks by dozens of police with helicopters and armored vehicles.


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About 400 witnesses will be heard at the trial.


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[12] Cretans commonly carry arms and blood ostokin is known on the island, although the most recent vendetta took place in the 1940s in Sfakiá [17].


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[12] Culture in Zonianá held a feast of shepherds in 2008, which received a continuation in August 2009.


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Food was served at the August 2009 celebration, as well as cheese weighing 250 kilograms.


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[18] Attractions In Zonianá is home to a wax museum founded by Dionissis Potamianos in which 87, or according to another source 103 [19], waxwork related to the history of Crete are exhibited.


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The museum houses, for example, the artist El Greco, the writer Níkos Kazantzákis, the politician Elefthérios Venizélos and the poet Vitséntzos Kornáros immortalized in wax.


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[20] In Zonianá lies the stalactites cave of Sfentón, which has a length of 145 metres and a volume of over 3000 square metres.


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The cave has a 270 metre long trail along which visitors can traverse.


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Less than one-third of the cave is closed to visitors.


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The cave is home to, among other things, bats.


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Signs of human activity from the Neolithic and early Minoan periods have been found in the cave [21].


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The cave has also been used, among other things, as a hiding place against the Ottoman people [19].


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At one time, a guerrilla named Sfentónis, who hailed from Sfakiá, had hid in a cave and cooked meat at the cave mouth.


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A young man saw Sfentónis and went closer to ask if he could get meat.


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However, Sfentónis killed the man either in his tantrums or because he feared the man would reveal his hide.


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[22] [23] from the village of Zonianá 5—6 kilometres, facing Mount Ida, there is a place called Nisí (, island).


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Nisí was formerly an “island”, as to the west it was bounded by the Oáxis River, to the south by a small tributary, and to the east and north by Lake Roussa, which today has dried up.


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Pieces of clay pots have been found at Nisí, and there are the ruins of mitáto.


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Mitáto has been used as a resting place and cheese has been made there.


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A tool resembling an axe has been found near a tributary south of the Nisí.


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[7] In Zonianá, just off Angouridianá, there is a place called Makariá, which according to legend was an antiquity town.


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Tombs have been found in Makariá and a wall built of clay and stone has been preserved there.


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Half-destroyed wine presses, as well as pots, have also been found in Makariá.


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Question: How far is Brittany from Paris?

Normandy invasion

The Normandy invasion was a major invasion of northern France by Western Allied armies in World War II in 1944.


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It was called Operation Overlord.


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Nazi Germany had occupied France at the time and was losing territory on the Eastern Front.


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The Allies sought to open a new front against Germany.


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The Germans had been building a long chain of defences known as the “Atlantic Rampart” since as early as 1940.


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In Germany, it was known that the invasion would come, but not its exact time and place.


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British military and intelligence officials misled the Germans into believing the invasion would take place near Calais.


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The Allies bombarded northern France for months before the landings, dropping paratroops at some points as early as night.


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A couple of hours before the attack, shipping artillery and bombers began sledgehamming the positions of the Atlantic rampart.


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On the morning of 6 June, at 6:30, 1944, the moment called D-Day came when Allied landings were beached in Normandy at many different points [1].


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The armies of the United States, Great Britain, Canada and Free France managed to move some 150,000 men into separate bridgeheads already on the first day of the invasion.


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The Germans delayed the transfer of reinforcements for 12 hours.


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Major losses came to the Allies on two strips, Juno Beach and Omaha Beach.


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On 13 June, the Allies were able to connect the various positions on the bridgehead.


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Then, for a long time, the attack stuck almost in place because of the severe resistance and broken terrain of the Germans.


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But on the other hand, the German forces were not enough to destroy the bridgehead.


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The Germans had better armour and artillery armament and skill to repel Allied tanks, but shortages of men, supplies and ammunition.


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The main part of the German army was tied to the Eastern Front.


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The Allies had air superiority and could replenish their forces.


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The Normandy front did not begin to move until the end of July when the US “Operation Cobra” prospered.


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A counterattack by the Germans at that time turned into a mass exodus.


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It was not until August that Allied attacks advanced far inland.


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The Allies liberated Paris in September.


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At the turn of the year, the Germans attempted a counterattack in the Ardennes, but it faded after good initial success.


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The invasion involved the United States, which had entered the war comparatively late.


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The Normandy invasion is the event in which US troops entered Europe.


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The event was significant for the course of the war, as Nazi Germany was coming to be drawn into a two-front war, meaning both the Eastern Front and the Western Front were warring at the same time.


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Facing west, the troops advanced towards Berlin and later the war ended with the conquest of Berlin and the surrender of Nazi Germany.


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Precise timing Politically the invasion of the Western European continent had been driven by Josif Stalin to ease the Red Army's losses starting as early as 1942, but the Western Allies had rebuffed the hopes.


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Once the Tehran conference had agreed on the invasion, the actual timing for the operation depended on the weather.


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A critical edge condition for the start of the operation was the correct weather status, assessed by British and US meteorologists alike.


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The operation was planned for May or the early days of June.


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Commander-in-Chief Eisenhower's chief meteorologist was the Scottish Dr James Stagg, who had been promoted to colonel in the UK Air Force for his post.


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To try the functionality of the forecasts of the group making weather forecasts, from April 1944 onwards, a three-day weather forecast had been given to the military command on Mondays, compared with the weather that had been realised.


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[2] In preparation for the invasion of the country for information security, on 17 April 1944, the communications of foreign diplomats enjoying diplomatic immunity in principle had been subjected to censorship.


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In addition, the British conducted numerous scavenging operations, lest the Germans concentrated their defences in the most likely areas, but instead split their strength.


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The scuffles were centrally planned by the XX Committee (), whose achievements included Operation Fortitude.


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[3] The operation was planned to begin on 2 June, but on 1 June, observations from weather stations at Scapa Flow suggested deep low pressures were developing in the North Atlantic.


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Rainy and cloudy weather could have jeopardized the planned operations of the first wave of the invasion of 130,000 troops and 45000 troops in the second wave, as the delivery of air support would have been difficult and shipping would have been a disadvantage as well.


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[4] Impact The invasion of Normandy is the largest sea-borne takeover operation in military history.


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It began in the early hours of the morning with a paratroop landing, a massive bombardment and naval cannon fire.


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Early in the morning, an attack by ground troops by landing ships began.


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The battle for Normandy that followed the invasion dragged on for more than two months, during which the Allies secured and expanded their bridgeheads and broke out of them.


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The battle ended with the recapture of Paris and the surrender of Chambois' mot.


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Significant male and material superiority is considered to be the reason for the success of the Normandy invasion.


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Troops were transported to beachheads in large numbers after D-Day and by the end of June, about 1 million Allied soldiers were in position in Normandy — mostly US, British and Canadian.


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The success of the operation opened up another front on the European war scene.


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As a result, the German war forces had to shift their troops from the Eastern Front and Italian fronts to the new front that had formed in France.


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The operation is considered to have hastened the defeat of Germany and is considered one of the most important battles of World War II.


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Background Ever since the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 (Operation Barbarossa), the Red Army had handled most of the fighting in the war against Germany in continental Europe.


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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had promised Josif Stalin that the Americans and British would open a “second front” in Europe to facilitate the Soviet war effort.


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The pledge was originally made in 1942 and repeated in 1943.


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To avoid the World War I experience of a direct attack on enemy forces, the British first advocated an invasion of the periphery of Europe, but under American pressure the plan was switched to a direct attack towards France across the English Channel.


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Two plans were made before Overlord: Operation Sledgehammer for the 1942 landings and Operation Roundup for a larger offensive in 1943.


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The latter plan continued to live in Operation Overlord, though its implementation was postponed until 1944.


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SHAEF began design work in January 1943.


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The plan for the Normandy invasion was long overshadowed by political disputes and mutual Allied pursuit of vested interests.


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There was a lot of disagreement about timing, command structure and place.


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Because the Western Allies, despite their promises, had not opened a second front to facilitate the Red Army's war effort in the east, much friction had arisen between the Allies.


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Stalin had been pushing the Allies since 1942.


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Winston Churchill had been against this plan and would only have launched the invasion once the possibility of failure had been eliminated and attacks carried out in Italy and North Africa.


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Churchill had been on the verge of deciding the fateful Gallipoli invasion in World War I as British Minister of Marine and was also therefore sceptical about the invasion.


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Montgomery's appointment to the leadership was criticized by the Americans.


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Montgomery himself had similarly prejudice against Eisenhower's nomination, as this one had almost no on-field experience.


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However, during the attack Montgomery and Eisenhower cooperated well, their known conflicts only resurfaced later.


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Normandy was a key logistical problem.


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The only usable port in the area was Cherbourg and had been carefully fortified by the Germans.


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At the top end of the command structure, many argued that Pas-de-Calais would be a significantly better landing point.


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Politically, the Normandy invasion created a tense situation between Colonel Charles de Gaulle, who sought to become head of state of France, and Franklin Roosevelt, who opposed old-fashioned imperialism.


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Roosevelt in no way wanted to support de Gaulle in his efforts to use the Normandy invasion as a reason to become France's authoritarian head of state without free elections in France.


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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 place of invasion.


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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 plunging were aiming with 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 occasionally 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 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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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 Allied air forces after 10 km of advance.


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7—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 of the 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 noticeable 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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Eagles are an American rock music band founded in 1971 by guitarist-vocalist Glenn Frey and drummer-vocalist Don Henley in Los Angeles, California.Shortly after this, the duo asked to join bassist Randy Meisner, and solo guitarist Bernie Leadon.Glenn Frey and Don Henley alongside the band's current lineup includes solo guitarist Joe Walsh and bassist Timothy B. Schmit.


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The band has released seven studio albums, two live albums, ten compilation albums and 29 singles in their career.


Question: What is the Eagles band's most listened to song?

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The Eagles are one of the most commercially successful bands of all time, with over 150 million copies sold internationally, including over 100 million records in the United States alone.


Question: What is the Eagles band's most listened to song?

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[1] Over the course of their extensive career, the Eagles have been honored with six Grammy Awards and five American Music Awards, and six albums for the band's production have reached the top spot on the Billboard 200 album charts in the United States.


Question: What is the Eagles band's most listened to song?

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The band's 38 times platinum selling The Greatest Hits 1971—1975 is the second best-selling album in the world.


Question: What is the Eagles band's most listened to song?

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It overtook Michael Jackson's Thriller in 2018 in sales, but only in the United States.


Question: What is the Eagles band's most listened to song?

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The Eagles broke up due to disagreements between the band members in 1980.


Question: What is the Eagles band's most listened to song?

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In 1994, the Eagles made a successful return to the performing stages and also released a live album Hell Freezes Over, which rose to chart top in the US and also included four new songs.


Question: What is the Eagles band's most listened to song?

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In 1998, the band was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.


Question: What is the Eagles band's most listened to song?

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The band's most recent studio album is Long Road Out of Eden, released in 2007.


Question: What is the Eagles band's most listened to song?

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History of the Establishment and the first albums of Eagles and Desperado (1972-1973) The Eagles had its start in Los Angeles in 1971 when drummer Don Henley and guitarist Glenn Frey were hired as backing musicians for Linda Ronstadt's band.