'D-Day' (Read Description)

'D-Day' (Read Description)

1. When?

   • June 6th 1944

2. Codenames

   • Operation overlord
     • The allied invasion of north-west Europe
       • Operation Neptune
         • Was the assault phase of Operation Overlord
         • Involved landing the troops on the beaches (and all other supporting operations) to establish a beachhead in France
         • Began on D-Day- 6th June 1944
         • Ended on 30th June 1944
     • Began on D-Day- 6th June 1944
     • Ended on 19th August 1944, when the allied forces crossed the River Seine

3. Numbers

   • The Normandy Landings
     • Around 156,000 allied troops landed in Normandy on day 1 of the invasion
       • 61,715 British Soldiers
       • 73,000 American Soldiers
       • 21,400 Canadian Soldiers
     • 11,590 aircraft took part in the landings
       • Carried 23,400 airborne troops
       • Conducting 14,674 sorties
   • Operation Neptune
     • 6,939 vessels were involved in the huge naval effort
   • Casualties
     • 4,413 allied soldiers died on D-day alone.
     • German losses are estimated to be somewhere between 4,000 and 9,000
       • No official tally currently exists

4. Who?

   • Allied Nations
     • Mostly
       • UK
       • Canada
       • US
     • But also nations such as
       • Czechoslovakia
       • France
       • Belgium
       • Australia
       • Greece
       • The Netherlands
       • Poland
   • Germany

5. Clever technology used

   • Tide-prediction Machine
   • Horsa Gliders
   • ARVEs
     • 'Hobart's funnies'
       • Unusually modified tanks
         • The Duplex Drive 'swimming tank'
         • The 'crocodile' flamethrower tank
         • The 'crab' mine-clearing flail tank
   • Landing Craft
     • Some fitted with guns or rockets
     • A huge range of landing craft
       • Tiny assault landing craft
       • Huge landing ships
   • PLUTO
     • Pipeline Under The Ocean
       • Supplied petrol from Britain to Europe via an underwater network of flexible pipes
       • Gave the Allied forces enough petrol to fuel aircraft and vehicles to finish the advance
   • Mulberry Harbours
   • German Defences
     • 'Rommel's Asparagus'
     • Rommel was put in charge of German defences in Normandy
       • The Desert Fox (Field Marshal Erwin Rommel)
     • 'Czech Hedgehogs'
       • These could tear through the bottom of landing craft

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