WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE D DAY INVASION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Omaha
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Gold
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Juno
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Utah
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Detailed explanation-1: -Casualties on Omaha Beach were the worst of any of the invasion beaches on D-Day, with 2, 400 casualties suffered by U.S. forces. And that includes wounded and killed as well as missing.
Detailed explanation-2: -The fiercest fighting was on Omaha Beach where the enemy was positioned on steep cliffs that commanded the long, flat shoreline. Troops leapt from their landing boats and were pinned down for hours by murderous machine-gun fire that turned the beach into a vast killing field.
Detailed explanation-3: -Omaha Beach is one of the two American landing areas in Normandy. 5.9 kilometers long, this beach is 12 kilometers east of Utah Beach. It consists of the towns of Vierville-sur-Mer in the west, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer in the center and the villages of Colleville-sur-Mer and Le-Grand-Hameau in the east.