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D-DAY
• Landing of Normandy
Brief introduction
• The D-Day refers to the day of the landing of Normandy. It took place on Jun.6, 1944 in Normandy, France.
• It is a well-organized plan.
• Soldiers from different countries were being assigned different sections of the beach. Canadians were responsible for the Juno beach. On the morning of Jun 6, over 30,000 Canadians arrived there.
3
objectives
- Establish a beachhead along the five miles Courseulles and St-Aubin-sur-Mer.
- Push through the gap between Bayeux and Caen.
- Penetrate to Carpiquet airfield around eleven miles inland.
- Beachhead- a temporary line created when a military unit reaches a beach by sea and begins to defend the area until reinforcements came.
- Courseulles- a small fishing port.
Some numbers
• 14,000 Canadian soldiers were to land on the beaches.
• 516 Canadian Paratroopers were to drop behind enemy lines by parachute or glider.
• The Royal Canadian Navy supplied ships and about 10,000 sailors.
ADVANTAGES
• Allied troops had massive air and naval support
• They managed to keep the details a secret from the German.
Results
• Nearly 200,000 Germans were killed, wounded or missing and also nearly 200,000 were taken as prisoner.
• Over 5000 Canadians were killed on the shores of Normandy, and there were more than 200,000 Allied casualties.
Diary of a solider on D-day
• “D-Day, it being 07.25 hours this morning. Rose and went for a walk on deck. Feeling pretty rough. Ship rolling pretty bad.”
• “Couldn't face any food. Arrived at our location 'somewhere in France' 13.30hours. Began to load on to Rhinos. Assault troops broke through beach head and advancing rapidly. No Sleep.”
• “News still that we are advancing further in the mainland. Beaches getting cleared of obstacles. Lost all my kit, blankets and money and my GS watch has given up.”
• Rhinos-- landing crafts used during D-day.
• There has been a mistake and
• the rhinos are in far deeper water
• than they should be. When the landing happened,
• the water has been chest-high,
• they also have to carry their rifle
• above their head to keep them dry.
Injured soldiers waiting to be transferred back
to casualty clearing station for treatments.
A small landing craft during the Normandy
landing.
Canadian soldiers waiting to aboard an L.C.I in June 6 1944.
Canadian soldiers on their way to land on the Juno
Beach.
Significance
• The landing of Normandy was the largest Canadian military operation of the ww2 (14,000 Canadian soldiers, 100 ships, and 36 bomber squadrons from the Royal Canadian Air Force)
• Though both sides suffered a lot, it can be said as a success on the Allies side. German suffered catastrophic losses, resulting it to have a limited number force to call on future battles.
Thank you!