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Show invasion of EurThe ope by Allied Forces on June 6, 1944 was probably the most crucial event of World Warll, as the fate of Europe hung upon its success. D-D- ay The British had been at war with Germany since tember 1939 when Hitlers troops marched into Poland. Russia had been at war since June 1941, and the United States had entered the war when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941. By then, Germany had with ... . was inflicting severe losses on Russia, and was regularly CASE Our reg. S29.99 Model REDEDICATE ourselves to maintain Commander CoL George A. Carruth addresses the rassembled troops at a command retreat ceremony held at Post Headquarters June 6 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy Photo by Charlie Price overrun Western Europe, FALCON" 7x35 YRADTIONAL BINOCULARS "LETT US bombing England; Hitler planned an eventual invasion of the British Isles. 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On that day, at 12:15 a.m. the 6th British and 82d and 101st U.S. Airborne divisions began dropping into enemy territory behind the . Nor- mandy beaches. Their task was to secure airfields, cut railroad lines, blow up bridges to protect the flanks and facilitate the advance of the invading forces. The paratroopers were followed by gliders carrying men and equipment and towed by bombers. The Germans responded with heavy antiaircraft fire but most German commanders did not take the airborne assault very seriously. The actual assault on the beaches began soon after dawn. The landings went well on the British beaches and on Utah, where the 4th division was in control of the beach and the men were pushing inland to meet up with the paratroopers and glider troops. On Omaha Beach, some ten miles up the coast from Utah, the situation was quite different. The assault on Omaha was under Lt. Gen. Leonard Gerows V corps, the spearhead-formed by the 1st infantry division reinforced by the 29th infantry divisions 116th infantry. They were met with murderously effective crossfire from the elite German 352d division, re SAVE Bushnell OFF This Thurs., Fri., Sat. ; fl ing was impeded by high seas and mines which swamped or sank most of the artillery and amphibious tanks which were and cloud cover too low for were assigned the other Code-name- Bushnell howers weather advisor forecast for June 5 high winds beach zones called Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. The American first army under the command of General Bradley, was assigned the two western beaches, Utah and Omaha. The British and Canadians eral Eisenhower arrived in London as supreme commander of the Allied expeditionary force. Plans were being completed for the most massive amphibious operad tion in history. Operation Overlord, an Allied army of three and a half million men (one and a half million Americans and two million British, Canadians and other troops representing many of the occupied countries of Europe) was Our reg. $239.99 with the armies already aboard the ships, Eisen- Mar- three. The German high command knew that an invasion was to take place, but through a variety of ingenious deception operations in the months and weeks before the assault, the Allies had the Germans convinced that Calais was the most likely invasion point. Thus the strongest German Army the fifteenth and several of their best armored divisions were concentrated against the area near Calais, rather than along the Normandy coast. The German defense depended heavily on those soldiers already manning the fortifications along the Atlantic wall and those stationed in nearby cently arrived from Russia and detected to late by Allied intelligence to alter the landing plan. Moreover, the land- but, on the night of June 3, a Cherbourg to Leharve 50 mile battle line into five vasion in 1943. Critical shortages, particularly of landing craft, forced a postponement of the assault. By early 1944 all this had changed. In the spring. Gen- BAUSCH & LOMB marshalled in staging areas and ports over a large area of southern England. Supporting them was an armada of 1,213 warships, over 400 landing craft, 1,600 other ships, 11,000 aircraft, and 3,500 gliders. All ground troops were initially under the unified command of British Field of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in January of that year. None recognized better than they the hazards of such an operation or how vast an array of men, ships, and air power would have to be mustered. 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