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Normandy

Normandy. June 3    Embarkation of all troops is complete.  Over 100,000 troops are onboard their ships. June 4 Advance seaborne units begin to deploy to assembly stations. The weather continues to deteriorate Heavy winds Five-foot swell at sea.

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Normandy

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  1. Normandy

  2. June 3    • Embarkation of all troops is complete.  • Over 100,000 troops are onboard their ships. • June 4 • Advance seaborne units begin to deploy to assembly stations. • The weather continues to deteriorate • Heavy winds • Five-foot swell at sea. • 0415 - Eisenhower orders a 24 hour 'hold'. • Ships are recalled to port.

  3. June 5 • Germans pull patrol boats back to port. • Rommel is in Stuttgart for his wife's birthday. • 0330  • A clear 'window' approaching from the west forecasted. • The cross-channel weather: rough, but minimally acceptable.  • "OK, let's go.“   H-Hour at Omaha: 0630, June 6th. • Fleet begins to deploy.  5,333 vessels. • 2100  Airborne units take off.

  4. Overlord • 4,000 ships • 176,000 troops • 2,500 heavy bombers • 7,000 medium bombers and fighters

  5. “Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.” - Dwight David Eisenhower

  6. 6 June • 0100 Airborne and air assault forces begin to land. • Scattered and disorganized • 0130 German Seventh Army HQ notified: paratroopers landing from Caen to the northern Cotentin. • 0330 The assault waves begin loading in the landing craft • Some landing craft swamped • 0400  Field Marshal von Rundstedt orders two panzer divisions to move immediately toward Caen. • OKW places order on hold until Hitler himself could concur. • Rommel's staff ordered the 21st Panzer Division to Caen.

  7. 6 June • 0558  Naval bombardment begins. • 0630  Assault waves begin to land. 

  8. UTAH BEACH

  9. Omaha Beach

  10. GOLD BEACH 50th Division Northumbrian

  11. JUNO BEACH 3rd Canadian INF DIV

  12. SWORD BEACH 3rd INF DIV Elements of 79th Armored DIV

  13. Airborne Casualties British = c. 1300 US = c. 2500 • UTAH • 20,000+ ashore by dark. • c. 200 casualties • OMAHA • Troops begin to move off beach by 1400. • High ground above beach reached by 2000. • c. 2000 casualties • GOLD • Beach exists cleared by 0745. • c. 1000 casualties • JUNO • Bulk of 3rd Division ashore by 1200 and pushing inland. • c. 1000 casualties • SWORD • Beach resistance weak, fighting moves inland by 0800. • c. 1000 casualties Total Allied casualties = c . 10,000 (2500 KIA) Total German casualties = c. 4000-9000

  14. SGT Curtis G. Culin Cranford, New Jersey Culin Hedgerow Cutters

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