WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE D DAY INVASION
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France
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Germany
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Hawaii
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Japan
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Detailed explanation-1: -On D-Day, 6 June 1944, Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. The ‘D’ in D-Day stands simply for ‘day’ and the term was used to describe the first day of any large military operation.
Detailed explanation-2: -The majority of troops who landed on the D-Day beaches were from the United Kingdom, Canada and the US. However, troops from many other countries participated in D-Day and the Battle of Normandy: Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Poland.
Detailed explanation-3: -In total, the Germans suffered 290, 000 casualties in Normandy, including 23, 000 dead, 67, 000 wounded and around 200, 000 missing or captured. Some 2, 000 tanks had been committed to the battle, but the panzer divisions were left with about 70 tanks between them.
Detailed explanation-4: -In May 1944, the Western Allies were finally prepared to deliver their greatest blow of the war, the long-delayed, cross-channel invasion of northern France, code-named Overlord.