DDAY

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D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944
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• 5000-vessel armada
• 150,000 men and nearly 30,000 vehicles
• Six parachute regiments -- over 13,000 men --
  were flown from nine British airfields in over
  800 planes.
• More than 300 planes dropped 13,000 bombs over
  coastal Normandy immediately in advance of the
  invasion.

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The Plan

• D-Day invasion began with a dangerous attack by
  American paratroopers, 101st 82nd Airborne
• Heavy fog and German guns proved formidable
  challenges. The pilots were unable to drop the
  paratroopers precisely as planned.
• Only one sixth of the men reached their
  destination points.
• Paratroopers carried an average of 70 pounds of
  equipment

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Obstacles
Logs Gates Sea Wall Cliffs
Hedgehogs Ramps Shingle
Concertina Wire
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• By nightfall on June 6, more than 9,000 Allied
  soldiers were dead or wounded
• more than 100,000 had made it ashore

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IMPACT OF D-DAY

• Major turning point in favor of allies
• Leads to liberation of France, August, 1944
• Beginning of the end

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Battle of the Bulge

• December 16, 1944 January 28, 1945
• Ardennes forest
• Largest land battle of World War II in which the
  United States participated
• 600,000 Germans, 500,000 Americans, and 55,000
  British

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IMPACT

• U.S. - 81,000 wounded19,000 killed
• British - 1400 wounded 200 killed
• Germans - 100,000 Killed wounded, or captured