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Background

- D'Day aka Invasion of Normandy

- June, 1944 - August, 1944

- Germany controled Normandy, France since May 1940

160,000 allied troops crossed the english channel

7,000 ships and boats (5,000 landing and assault crafts, 289 escort crafts, and 277 minesweepers

Within 10 days, 500,000 troops were on the beaches

Within 3 weeks there were 2 million troops

Who's in Charge?

Dwight D. Eisinhower

Erwin Rommel

- Dwight D. Eisinhower was in charge of the United states troops

- Erwin Rommel was in charge of the Germans

The Beginning

- June 6, 1944

-“You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

- Paratroopers and glider troops attacked from the sky

-Troops came in from the sea via amphibious vehicles

Beach Battles

Britain, Canada, and the United States conquered the Gold, Utah, Juno and Sword beaches easily

Omaha beach had a strong resistance againts America

War Vets from D-Day and their stories

Ivor Anderson

591 parachute platoon

18/100 of his platoon survived

Mission

Job: Hold the bridge from Germans to prevent them from getting to the beaches

“We were all in pretty good spirits and there was a good singalong during the first part of the flight. Once over the Channel we all quietened down and made ready for the jump into darkness.” - Anderson

Rap explosive charges around outposts so the gilder troops can land safely, then hold the position from enemies

Being mortared the whole time

“It was a bit threatening because we were being shelled and mortared the whole time.” - Anderson

“It was a mortar or a shell,” he said. “We were holding a position and we were hit. The next thing I remember is waking up in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. It turned out I had been half buried with shrapnel in my leg, and I was pulled out.” - Ivor Anderson

Robert Coupe

RAF Halifax Pilot

Bomb squad

Robert Coupe (Right)

Mission

Caen after the bombings

Job: Bomb Caen

“I’ve always carried a burden of guilt about the bombing of civilians. Despite directing attacks against military targets, we all knew that civilians would be caught in the destruction. This was especially true of Caen.”

Revisiting

Taylor met a french women while he visited normandy in 2011 and she said both her grandparents were killed in the bombing of Caen. She told Taylor that she and her family understood and accepted the inevitability of civilian casualties.

“It was the first time since the war I felt unburdened.” - Taylor later said

Germany's Side

Paul Golz

Wehrmacht soldier

Inprisoned by the United States

1948 - returned home and join the West German Federal Border Patrol

Mission

Guard duty on the normandy coast

Scan the skies for enemy planes

Within a few days of spotting an enemy plane, Golz was placed in a POW camp in Virginia

Returning to War

Rommel Asparagus

1948 - returned home and join the West German Federal Border Patrol

Commanded to place rommel asparagus and defend against paratroopers

“Rommel asparagus” - sharpened logs connected with barbed wire to prevent the landings of paratroopers

Works Cited

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D4aZqd3vgoefI0BUuMSz7-n0tyG--vOW2N9usl3VQ9I/edit?usp=sharing

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