D-Day Facts – Unknown Facts about D-Day

Normandy Landing Facts

D-Day was happened to be on June 5 but due to bad weather conditions it’s been delayed by 24 hours.

More than 3,000 civilians died on D-Day and D+1.

Due to the D-Day fighting on Normandy beaches, 4% of the sand is made of metal particles.

Before D-Day, the MI-5 secret mission D-Day operation code names were answers to the Crossword puzzle printed in a newspaper, but it was later confirmed that it was a mere coincidence.

The British and Canadian navy operated a trail invasion “Dieppe Raid” on France in 1942 that ended in a disaster. This failure mission made the Allied Forces more cautious to plan a winning strategy for D-Day.

During D-Day Normandy landing, J.D. Salinger served the war by carrying his personal Dairy that contains the working of his upcoming novel “Catcher in The Rye.”

Theodore Roosevelt JR is the first General to initiate D-Day and first General to land on the Normandy shore with the first wave of troops.

During D-Day, the German Nazi Ariel warfare couldn’t shot a single Allied Air fighter down as they were outnumbered with 1:30 ratio.

On the night of the D-Day invasion only 15% of the Allied force Parachute troopers landed in the right place and the remaining were killed or miss landed.

To collect the information of French beaches for the suitable landing on D-Day, the BBC conducted a fake competition for French Beach holiday photographs.