d-day: a soldier’s experience nicholas mercer extra extra allies invade normandy
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Fighting Fiercely However, through steadfast resolve and determination … The paratroopers were able to reach their destinations.TRANSCRIPT
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D-Day: A Soldier’s ExperienceNicholas Mercer
EXTRA EXTRA ALLIES INVADE NORMANDY
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June 6, 1944• At 12:01 A.M. American 101st and 82nd
Airborne jump into Normandy …
Things quickly went wrong.
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Fighting Fiercely However, through steadfast resolve and
determination …
The paratroopers were able to reach their destinations.
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Just before Dawn
With 14,000 sorties and and thousands of Allied ships the beaches get blasted with an arsenal of weaponry.
However, the bombardment was ineffective.
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0600 Hours
The beaches of Normandy get invaded with U.S., British and Canadian Troops …
This is only the beginning.
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Fierce BattleThrough hard fighting and individual resolve, the Allies were able to make their way onto the beaches …
It would take many more hours.
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German LossesThere were many German losses as well …
Allowing the Allies to have victory.
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Allies prove VictoriousThe Allies were able to capture the Beach head of
Normandy.
However, it cost the Allies many casualties.Click here for more information
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The HeroesHonor our fallen soldiers …
They are the ones who have ensured our freedom.
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ReferencesColonel C.P. Stacey, The Victory Campaign (Official History of the
Canadian Army in the Second World War, Volume III).
http://www.warchronicle.com/numbers/WWII/ddaycasualtyest.htm
Ambrose, Stephen E. D-Day The Climactic Battle of World War II. New York, New York:Touchstone, 1994.