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[whencyclopedia]

D-Day

D-Day was the first day of Operation Overlord, the Allied attack on German-occupied Western Europe, which began on the beaches of Normandy, France, on 6 June 1944. Primarily US, British, and Canadian troops, with naval and air support, attacked five beaches, landing some 135,000 men in a day widely considered to have changed history.

Where to Attack?

Operation Overlord, which sought to attack occupied Europe starting with an amphibious landing in northwest France, Belgium, or the Netherlands, had been in the planning since January 1943 when Allied leaders agreed to the build-up of British and US troops in Britain. The Allies were unsure where exactly to land, but the requirements were simple: as short a sea crossing as possible and within range of Allied fighter cover. A third requirement was to have a major port nearby, which could be captured and used to land further troops and equipment. The best fit seemed to be Normandy with its flat beaches and port of Cherbourg.

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[omniatlas]

Europe 75 years ago today: D-Day (6 Jun 1944) https://buff.ly/2MyZHhb Despite Allied successes, Western Europe had remained firmly under German control since 1940. By June 1944 the Americans and British were ready to change this, landing 45 000 troops in northern France. The Second Front that Stalin had been demanding since the launch of Barbarossa was open. (This map is of the situation on 20 June 1944, posted early to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day) #europe #history #welovemaps #map #1940s #1944 #allies #europeanhistory #nazigermany #thirdreich #june #june20 #dday #normandylandings #normandybeach #allies #dday75 #dday75thanniversary #worldwarii #worldwar2 #ww2 #wwii #secondworldwar #maps #welovehistory #historyteacher #todayinhistory #historytoday #historygeek #historybuff (at Omaha Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByYZFteAmIa/?igshid=fdmk529oj3jz

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[ellenkushner]

Seaside, Normandy. Evening walk. If I could swim, it's a straight shot to Portsmouth, England. #beach #france #normandybeach #normandylandings #mysteriousplant #authorsofinstagram (at Courseulles sur Mer - Plages du Débarquement) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpzlHk2lRcl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dieb5pzre9ci

#beach #france #normandybeach #normandylandings #mysteriousplant #authorsofinstagram

[sophieblanchet]

A great day!

June 7, 1944 - 2:33 pm

I am so happy! Yesterday, the Allied soldiers came to France and attacked from the Normandy Landings. This is amazing! This attack really dug into the Germans’ minds. I’m so glad to be able to help print out the newspapers that talk about the Normandy Landings today. Hopefully, by printing out this news and distributing it, we can keep the morale up within our country. This occupation has been horrible for us, but the Normandy Landings are showing us that there is still hope in the future. 

I’m so sure that this event will be able to spearhead the resistance as we go to liberate France from the Germans! I’m so excited for then! 

- Sophie <3

#resistance #soontobefree #normandylandings #spreadthenews #excited

[ht-craftedcurated]

8/6/20 - New book🗡 - How has it taken me so long to discover the FS fighting knife?? - #fsfightingknife #fairbairnsykesfightingknife #fairbairnsykescommandodagger #leroythompson #wwiibooks #ww2books #shanghai #shanghaimunicipalpolice #shanghaiknife #dday #normandylandings #sword #queenbeach https://www.instagram.com/p/CBLV4KPgOhQ/?igshid=1kjjmq8xxcjnx

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[andysdriftwoodart]

Even with everything that’s going on at the moment, today is still a day we should take a little time to remember and reflect on the sacrifices that were made by those brave people for the generations gone by and all future generations. . #normandylandings #dday #d-day #reflection #lestweforget #rememberreflectrespect #normandy #wewillrememberthem #lostsouls #thankyou #respect #6thjune1944 https://www.instagram.com/p/CBGJzzJhyLo/?igshid=qe9vh2xsrhgr

#normandylandings #dday #d #reflection #lestweforget #rememberreflectrespect #normandy #wewillrememberthem #lostsouls #thankyou #respect #6thjune1944

[nassimzoghbi]

#RoadTrip to #WW2 the #History of #Europe #Freedom #NormandyLandings started here with #OperationFlagPole #Messelmoun #Tipaza during #SummerDays #DZ #Algeria (at Messlmoûn, Tipaza, Algeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0iFsnOBJfS/?igshid=4evl6np6shp5

#roadtrip #ww2 #history #europe #freedom #normandylandings #operationflagpole #messelmoun #tipaza #summerdays #dz #algeria

[ianscott360]

This Douglas DC-3 (N341A) flew over Aldershot today. It flew over the English Channel on June 5th 2019 for the 75th commemoration of D-day. #douglasdc3 #douglasdc3dakota #dakota #dakotaplane #dc3 #dc3dakota #ww2 #dday #daksovernormandy #normandy #normandylandings (at Aldershot) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzGj7NOBLKW/?igshid=16bn2yiqrpj8r

#douglasdc3 #douglasdc3dakota #dakota #dakotaplane #dc3 #dc3dakota #ww2 #dday #daksovernormandy #normandy #normandylandings

[faithfamilyfilms]

75 years ago today 156,000 troops crossed the English Channel to land in Normandy. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history and an amazing achievement. Today we rightly remember those who died and risked their lives that day. Most of us alive today were not born then and so films like these four are good reminders to us of what went on. As a film fan I love the story of Richard Todd who was in the D-Day landing and features in two of these films. At the beginning of World War 2, Todd joined the British Army, receiving a commission in 1941. He served in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) before joining the Parachute Regiment and the 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion as part of the British 6th Airborne Division. On 6 June 1944, as a captain, he participated in Operation Tonga during the D-Day landings. He was among the first British soldiers to land in Normandy as part of Operation Overlord. His battalion parachuted in after glider-borne forces had landed to capture the Pegasus Bridge near Caen. During the operation he met John Howard on the bridge and organized the repulse of several counter-attacks by the Wehrmacht forces holding the area. Amazingly Todd later played Howard in the film The Longest Day, recreating these events, while another actor played Todd. . . . . #dday #normandylandings #thelongestday #ddaythe6thofjune #savingprivateryan #richardtodd #overlord #normandy #normandyfrance #ww2 #dday75 #dday75thanniversary #englishchannel #kingsownyorkshirelightinfantry #operationtonga #filmfan #moviebuffs🎬 #moviestagram #moviebuff #filmstagram #filmlover #parachuteregiment #paras #warmovie https://www.instagram.com/p/ByW7AhklE8H/?igshid=i6flsq1f6ts9

#dday #normandylandings #thelongestday #ddaythe6thofjune #savingprivateryan #richardtodd #overlord #normandy #normandyfrance #ww2 #dday75 #dday75thanniversary #englishchannel #kingsownyorkshirelightinfantry #operationtonga #filmfan #moviebuffs🎬 #moviestagram #moviebuff #filmstagram #filmlover #parachuteregiment #paras #warmovie

[tonycordingley]

#dunkirk #normandy1944 #normandyfrance #normandylandings #normandy #goodvibes #happy #cool #instacool #groovybabyyeah #groovy #moments https://www.instagram.com/p/ByYBEA1p9N7/?igshid=cdzr8tmc29lc

#dunkirk #normandy1944 #normandyfrance #normandylandings #normandy #goodvibes #happy #cool #instacool #groovybabyyeah #groovy #moments

[whencyclopedia]

Gold Beach

Gold Beach was the central of the five Allied D-Day Normandy landings of 6 June 1944. Primarily British units, with massive naval and air support, were set the task of taking the beach, a feat achieved by the end of the day, using a combination of armoured vehicles and infantry who negotiated mines and obstacles to storm the German defences.

Gold Beach was linked with its neighbouring beachheads as the battle for the beaches evolved into the Battle for Normandy. A floating Mulberry harbour was then built at Gold Beach, which allowed a massive amount of men and equipment to be landed in support of the ever-expanding Allied front in Normandy.

Operation Overlord

The amphibious assault on the beaches of Normandy was the first stage of Operation Overlord which sought to free Western Europe from occupation by Nazi Germany. The supreme commander of the Allied invasion force was General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), who had been in charge of the Allied operations in the Mediterranean. The commander-in-chief of the Normandy land forces, 39 divisions in all, was the experienced General Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976). Commanding the air element was Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh Mallory (1892-1944), with the naval element commanded by Admiral Bertram Ramsay (1883-1945).

Nazi Germany had long prepared for an Allied invasion, but the German high command was unsure where exactly such an invasion would take place. Allied diversionary strategies added to the uncertainty, but the most likely places remained either the Pas de Calais, the closest point to British shores, or Normandy with its wide flat beaches. The Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) attempted to fortify the entire coast from Spain to the Netherlands with a series of bunkers, pillboxes, artillery batteries, and troops, but this Atlantic Wall, as he called it, was far from being complete in the summer of 1944. In addition, the wall was thin since there was no real depth to the defences.

Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953), commander-in-chief of the German army in the West, believed it would be impossible to stop an invasion on the coast and so it would be better to hold the bulk of the defensive forces as a mobile reserve to counterattack against enemy beachheads. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (1891-1944), commander of Army Group B, disagreed and considered it essential to halt any invasion on the beaches themselves. Further, Rommel believed that Allied air superiority meant that movements of reserves would be severely hampered. Hitler agreed with Rommel, and so the defenders were strung out wherever the fortifications were at their weakest. Rommel improved the static defences and added steel anti-tank structures to all the larger beaches. In the end, Rundstedt was given a mobile reserve, but the compromise weakened both plans of defence. The German response would not be helped either by their confused command structure, which meant that Rundstedt could not call on any armour (but Rommel, who reported directly to Hitler, could), and neither commander had any control over the paltry naval and air forces available or the separately controlled coastal batteries. Nevertheless, the defences were bulked up around the weaker defences of Normandy to an impressive 31 infantry divisions plus 10 armoured divisions and 7 reserve infantry divisions. The German army had another 13 divisions in other areas of France. A standard German division had a full strength of 15,000 men.

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[lyselkatz]

Making #ribbon #poppies and binging on #BandOfBrothers (what do you mean, "again" ? 😆) for the #DDay #commemoration 🌹 #LyselKatzCreations #TVshow #DDayNormandy1944 #Debarquement #Documentary #NormandyLanding https://www.instagram.com/lyselkatz/p/ByVc6fYF0nm/?igshid=bt93tynkdtkk

#ribbon #poppies #bandofbrothers #dday #commemoration #lyselkatzcreations #tvshow #ddaynormandy1944 #debarquement #documentary #normandylanding

[ellenkushner]

Seaside, Normandy. Evening walk. If I could swim, it's a straight shot to Portsmouth, England. #beach #france #normandybeach #normandylandings #mysteriousplant #authorsofinstagram (at Courseulles sur Mer - Plages du Débarquement)

#beach #france #normandybeach #normandylandings #mysteriousplant #authorsofinstagram

[idkmybff-dennis]

#wbw: Les Braves Memorial of Omaha Beach in Normandy, France commemorates the fallen American soldiers of World War II, specially those who’ve lost their lives in this beach on June 6th 1944. Omaha was one of the sectors of the Allied invasion of German occupied France in the Normandy landing 75 years ago. What a blessing to have visited this historic and consecrated place last November! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 . . . #dday #dday75thanniversary #omahabeach #normandy #normandylanding #ww2 #lesbravesmemorial #anilorebanon #wingsofhope #risefreedom #wingsoffraternity #jawsofdeath #operationneptune #throwback #roadtrip #france (at Omaha Beach D-Day Memorial) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByWkgtjgCFe/?igshid=1k18c2q6ko1hn

#wbw #dday #dday75thanniversary #omahabeach #normandy #normandylanding #ww2 #lesbravesmemorial #anilorebanon #wingsofhope #risefreedom #wingsoffraternity #jawsofdeath #operationneptune #throwback #roadtrip #france

[josephbenami]

162-3 Seventy-seventh anniversary of D-Day

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[keenlen]

Beaches of Normandy - Utah, Omaha & Pointe du Hoc. Remembering D-Day, the longest day on June 6th, 1944. A throwback to my visit there in May 2019 where I gave my salute to all who participated in this great and noble undertaking. #DDay77 #DDay #DDayAnniversary #NeverForget #LestWeForget #DDayLandings #BandofBrothers #101stAirborne #BeachesofNormandy #NormandyLandings #OmahaBeach #UtahBeach #OperationOverlord #saintemariedumont #saintemarieeglise #pointeduhoc #ddayhistory #dday_history #WWII #OperationOverlord #WW2 #History #MilitaryEnthusiast #MilitaryHistory #France #Normandy #ThisDayinHistory #OnthisDay #Throwback #Battlesites #PlanesPatchesPeople (at Normandy D-Day Landing Beaches) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPx9w4Nh-uH/?utm_medium=tumblr

#dday77 #dday #ddayanniversary #neverforget #lestweforget #ddaylandings #bandofbrothers #101stairborne #beachesofnormandy #normandylandings #omahabeach #utahbeach #operationoverlord #saintemariedumont #saintemarieeglise #pointeduhoc #ddayhistory #dday_history #wwii #ww2 #history #militaryenthusiast #militaryhistory #france #normandy #thisdayinhistory #onthisday #throwback #battlesites #planespatchespeople