D-Day Facts – Unknown Facts about D-Day
Normandy Invasion Facts
During the D-Day invasion, some of the Free French, Poles, Belgians, Czechs, Greeks, Dutch, Norwegians, Aussies and kiwis joined with the Allied Armed Forces Troops.
During D-Day landings, the mini submarines were surfaced at 4 AM on all five beaches to beam lights on the shore so that the landing aircraft could easily navigate to the correct markings and avoid any obstacles and rock shoals.
Richard Todd, an officer in 7th Parachute Battalion on D-Day, also played a character in the 1962 movie “The Longest Day” which was about the D-Day.
During the D-Day invasion, German army was ready with 50,000 soldiers and their defense tactics include concrete gun emplacements, wooden stakes, barbed wires, Anti-Tank obstacles, mines, and booby traps.
During the D-Day at 6:31 A.M 73,000 U.S Troopers landed at Utah and Omaha beaches, at 7:31 A.M 61,715 British soldiers landed at Gold and sword beaches and at 7:31 A.M 21,400 Canadian Army landed at Juno beach.
On June 5, 1944 the Allied Force sent 24,000 Airborne Troopers and 2,000 Aircraft with 867 Gliders to secure road and rail tracks. Dummy paratroopers were also dropped to help convince Germans that real landing would take place somewhere else.
Canadian Soldier James Doohan is also an actor in Star Trek who played Captain Scotty, survived the D-Day after being shot 4 times in leg, one through his chest and one through his finger.
D-Day is beginning of the end of Nazi rule and WWII.
