Talk:American airborne landings in Normandy

message: Hello, I am a cargo glider historian and below is a combination of several conversations with other glider historians:
Image C47a-43-15292wgliders shows invasion stripes on the aircraft as half stripes, not full stripes. Normandy used full stripes. Market used half stripes, bottom only.
Image 315tccg-c47-2 C-47 shows a white and a black stripe below the bar and darkened area above the star, upper part of fuselage indicating the stripes have been over painted. This group also is being readied for Market and the photo is NOT in preparation for Normandy.
Image 101st_Airborne_on_D-day-1 should be 101st_Airborne_on_Holland_D+1: http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Press/jfq_pages/editions/i48/29.pdf
There is no sign on the leading edge of the visible glider wing
or C-47 wing of the stripes... Market's half stripes are not visible on the leading edge. Normandy's full stripes were visible on the leading edge.
A living (2007) relative and custodian of Gen. Anthony McAuliffe papers has been trying to correct the fallacies surrounding this photograph for quite some time. This photo was taken September 18, 1944.
Also McAuliff jumped into Normandy but rode into Holland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_McAuliffe
Pictured he is wearing an inflatable for glider flight and not a 'chute for airdrop.
Normandy's D+1 sorties departed in the early AM darkness; noone was smiling at that point in the operation. Pictured emotion didn't strike me as preparatory for the uncertain Normandy assault on Fortress Europe: moral was higher by Holland, especially after the successes of the first day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden
Please correct these photograph's captions; this last one also appears on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-47_Skytrain
and gives an incorrect impression on its date, again which was September 18, 1944.
Very Respectfully,
Keith H Thoms (including emails from Charles L Day)
--14:42, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I deleted all 3 since the arguments above make sense for the most part. Items referring to Market have little point appearing in an article on Normandy since the two are opposites in tactical direction. (Plus I am embarrassed that I took them at face value and did not critically examine them before I used them.) As for the picture at the C-47 article, that's somebody else's burden.--Buckboard 06:16, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  3 photos are from Operation Market Garden not Normandy 

message: I would delete this section from the article.
# It has its own article.
# It has little to do with American airborne LANDINGS in Normandy.
Just a suggestion. --Jim Sweeney (talk) 16:25, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Bit more are you sure you want it to proceed with the GA assessment at the moment it fails a B Class assessment with large parts unreferenced. --Jim Sweeney (talk) 16:32, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ground combat involving U.S. airborne forces 

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message: According to the article "4,490 missing" was their status ever updated? All they all presumed dead? There was a lot of confusion on D-Day especially with paratroopers many got scattered around and separated from their units. Lenbrazil (talk) 19:26, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Still "missing" after nearly 80 years 

message: The info box numbers are confusing and misleading. The box shows 27,000 personnel in the (airlifted) under strength. Then it shows the casualties as 12,003 killed. This implies that over half of them were killed which is not true. If someone is not reading that carefully they might not understand that the 12k losses were over the Normandy campaign rather than in the battle. I think that section of the box should be omitted unless there is a sourced number for the precise number of airborne losses in Operation Overlord.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rocky8u (talk • contribs) 02:42, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info Summary Casualties and Losses