DDay

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D-Day

• By Kameron Freddy

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Definition Of D-Day

• D-Day- While the initial D in D-Day does not
  stand for anything, it often represents a
  variable, designating the day upon which some
  significant event will or has occurred.

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The Cause of D-Day

• D-Day for the invasion of Normandy by the Allies
  was originally set for 5 June 1944, but bad
  weather caused Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower to delay
  until 6 June and that date has been popularly
  referred to ever since by the short title
  "D-Day". Because of this, planners of later
  military operations sometimes avoided the term.
  For example, Douglas MacArthur's invasion of
  Leyte began on "A-Day", and the invasion of
  Okinawa began on "L-Day". The Allies proposed
  invasions of Japan that would have begun on
  "X-Day", scheduled for November 1945) and
  "Y-Day, scheduled for March 1946)

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The Americans Are Here!

• 20,000 men were dropped by parachute or landed in
  gliders behind enemy lines to disrupt
  communications and seize key points. The
  invasion was supported by 11,000 planes, which
  attacked the Nazis from the air.
• 7 battleships, 23 cruisers and 105 destroyers
  laid down a massive bombardment of the Nazi shore
  defences.

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Taking the Beach

• Within ten minutes of landing every officer and
  sergeant of the 116th Regiment was dead or
  wounded, and the Americans sustained 3,000
  casualties in first few hours. By 10 am, only
  300 men had managed to struggle ashore safely,
  and by nightfall the Americans still only had a
  toehold on the beach.

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The End

• On April 30,1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide
  in an underground bunker near the center of
  Berlin. His dream of a Thousand - Year Reich" lay
  in ruins. German cities had been bombed, German
  armies captured or destroyed. A week after
  Hitlers death, Germany offered unconditional
  surrender to Allied forces. The nightmare of
  World War 2 in Europe came to an end.

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Questions
1. What does D-Day stand for? 2. What was the
name of the place where the Allies landed? 3.How
did Hitler die? 4.Who attacked Pearl
Harbor? 5.When did D-Day take place?
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Answers

• 1. Nothing
• 2. Normandy
• 3.suicide
• 4.The Japanese
• 5. June 6,1944