DDay Trouble in June 6 th 1944 Decisions

D-Day Trouble in June, 6 th, 1944 (Decisions Day)

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, 6 th 1944 at the north west coast in France

Impressions Normandy But it wasn´t that friendly all the time…

Just imagine, we would stand close to a place called Normandy, early in the morning, June 6 th 1944….

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.

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 …. !

A memorial….

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 is not treating the rest of the world right and needs to be stopped!

So far so good!

Let me allow to say, that Mr. Hitler wasn’t dumb either! They already knew, or at least pretended, that something will happened, sooner or later, the question was just, where and when? ! !

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….

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…

The German’s 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.

to me, it’ll be a bad day for the German Wehrmacht and his

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. "

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 -

The German‘s

In 1944 the logistic issues on the west boarderline was not fine; some military good‘s were going the east. In may 1944 the commander in chief army group west Fieldmarshal von Rundstedt had have

• Fieldmarshal von Rundstedt

• 48 infantry units • 10 tank units • 1379 tanks • 1. 873. 000 soldiers

• 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.

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.

• 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

That was the big plan……

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.

Here ist comes… Meanwhile, 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.

• On June 6 th 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. Fieldmarshal Rommel

• 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 6 th in the Normandy, the German command did not know what happened they thought that it was a part of the training.

• The information about the landing paratroops where so different that they couldn’t 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.

Rock´n Roll….

• In the morning at 6: 30 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.

• 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 didn’t 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.

• 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

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.

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: …. .

„ I don´t 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

In loving memory to the unknown soldier…

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

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