D-Day

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D-Day

• Trouble in June, 6th, 1944
• (Decisions Day)

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Short introduction

• Good morning class,
• the topic for today is the Fight in the
  Normandy in World War II
• We would like to introduce you what happened back
  in June, 6th 1944 at the north west coast in
  France

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Impressions Normandy

• But it wasnt that friendly all the time

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Just imagine, we would stand close to a place
called Normandy, early in the morning, June 6th
1944.
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A crazy German warlord tried to fight his own war
against the rest of the world.The Americans were
not able to handle this anymore, so they decided
to support the other parties, technically and
mentally, after what happened to the Americans on
an island called Hawaii, in a city name Pearl
Harbour.
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The Americans and the Brits were looking for a
spot, were they can land, somewhere in Europe.In
a race against time they made their decision, and
they figured, the best place to land would be a
part of the Northwest coast in France name
Normandy, right here, were we standing now .!
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A memorial.
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A smart man name Dwight D. Eisenhower and other
80 Generals, met in Scotland, had a couple of
beers, and after that, they came to the
conclusion, we need to open a can of asswippen,
because that little German man is not treating
the rest of the world right and needs to be
stopped!
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So far so good!
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Let me allow to say, that Mr. Hitler wasnt dumb
either! They already knew, or at least
pretended, that something will happened, sooner
or later, the question was just, where and
when?! !
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So they build plenty of heavy armoured bunkers,
full heavy weapons and a lot of firepower, along
the coast, which was a really hard obstacle, for
the allied troops to take.It was definitely a
rough and hard day for the allied troops, we
going to talk about that later, in detailed
historic records, which I have downloaded from
the web. Like one of these.
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Armoured howitzer site

• On this pic, you can see, one of the Führers
  Wunderwaffen.
• He build heavy armoured gun sites along the
  coast. It needed a lot of concret and it although
  took live of many people, which suffered in
  german concentration camps

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The Germans were not prepared enough, a lot of
lucky coincidences for the allied forces, due to
weather reasons, the Germans ignored their own
weather forecast, due to the fact, that most of
the German air force staff and some of the
officers went on holidays.
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Seems to me, itll be a bad day for the
German Wehrmacht and hisboss..?!?
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• Prelude to Operation Overlord
• During the first six months of 1944, the United
  States and Great Britain concentrated land,
  naval, and air forces in England to prepare for
  Operation Overlord, the assault on Hitler's
  "Fortress Europe."

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They just had to figure out where and , of course
when to land, in this undiscovered land

• So, they decided to land at this particular
  place.
• They called it
• - OHAMA BEACH
• - NORMANDY -

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The Germans
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In 1944 the logistic issues on the west
boarderline was not fine some military goods
were going the east. In may 1944 the commander in
chief army group west Fieldmarshal von Rundstedt
had have
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• Fieldmarshal von Rundstedt

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• 48 infantry units
• 10 tank units
• 1379 tanks
• 1.873.000 soldiers

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• The proplem in spring 1944 was that only 39 of
  1000 cannons could fight against Sea targets.
  They had no powerfull Navy nor they had a
  powerfull Air force and no tank or troop
  reserves. The troops were made of soldiers with
  bad constitution or by younger soldiers who had
  not trained enough.

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Only a few days 2 go

• Before the invasion, the air and sea
  components played major roles. The 12,000 planes
  of the Allied air forces swept the Luftwaffe from
  the skies, photographed enemy defenses, dropped
  supplies to the resistance, bombed railways,
  attacked Germany's industries and isolated the
  battlefield.

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• At the same time the allied air force were
  bombing all the transporting routes so that the
  Atlantic-wall was cut off from the rest of
  German Wehrmacht

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That was the big plan
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The Allies' naval component was similarly active
during the buildup. The navies escorted convoys,
patrolled and protected the English Channel,
reconnoitered beaches and beach defenses,
conducted amphibious rehearsals and organized and
loaded a mighty flotilla to land the assault
forces in France.
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Here ist comesMeanwhile, the nine army
divisions (three airborne and six infantry) from
the United States, Britain and Canada trained and
rehearsed their roles in the carefully
choreographed operation.
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Fieldmarshal Rommel

• On June 6th 1944 the german comanding officers
  were not in the field. Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel
  stayed at home to celebrate his wifes birthday.
  Fleetadmiral Dönitz stayed in vacation, an the
  German High Command had a look on the Battlefield
  of Italy.

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• Fieldmarshal von Rundstedt stays with his Staff
  near Paris to train an assault by enemy
  paratroops behind the west wall. After the
  landing of the allied paratroops in the night of
  June 6th in the Normandy, the German command did
  not know what happened they thought that it was a
  part of the training.

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• The information about the landing paratroops
  where so different that they couldnt belive it.
  On the one hand they where talking about hard
  fights on the other hand, the were talking about
  little plastik dummys which looked like British
  paratroops.

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Rockn Roll.
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• In the morning at 630 German Soldiers saw the
  fleet in front of the Normandy they saw the
  biggest Fleet they had seen in theire life
  before. 6500 ships and boats where coming closer
  to the beach to drop of the allied troops to
  landing in the Normandy.

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• Fieldmarshal Rommel came emidiadly to the
  battlefield his staff ordered the tank reserve
  which was stationed close to Paris, but
  fieldmarshal Keitel Commander in chief German
  Highcommand didnt let them go. And WWI private
  first class Hitler comander in chief of the
  Wehrmacht was sleeping and it was not allowed to
  wake him up.

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• If we do not succeed in our mission to close the
  seas to the Allies, or in the first 48 hours, to
  throw them back, their invasion will be
  successful ...
• In the absence of strategic reserves and due
  to the total inadequacy of our navy and of our
  air force we will have lost the war.
• Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel
• Commander in chief German Army Group B

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Point of no return

• Rangers climbed cliffs, engineers destroyed beach
  obstacles, quartermasters stockpiled supplies and
  infantrymen waded through the English surf as
  each honed the skills necessary for the
  invasion's success.

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D-Day memories After all what happend, we
should keep in mind, that a war is never
something that need to be done, not even as a
last option.A wise man said..
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• I dont kow which and what kind of weapons we
  use against eachother in World War III,
• but what I do know, in World War IV we going
  to fight with clubs, rocks and woodpieces.
• Albert Einstein

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In loving memory to the unknown soldier
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Casualties

• Omaha USA 4000 Germany 700
• Juno CAN 50 No digits
• Sword Brit. 700 No digits
• Utha Brit. 197 No digits
• Gold No digits No digits
• In 24 hours

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Peace