D Day notes

how many bombs hit

0, biggest allied fail

_____ allied soldiers, ______ german, ____. french civilians (casualties)

10,000, 4,000, 3,000

beach is death zone of

1000 feet

155mm guns can obliterate anything within

15 miles

rangers scale _____ foot cliffs under gunfire

150

after d-day _______ more men were landed bringing in ________ tons of supplies

200,000 and 3 million

shrapnel travels at this speed

3000 yards per second

how many times was baumgarten wounded

5

how do the allies trick the germans in believing that the invasion will be at Pas de Calais

Allusions, magic gang, make things appear to be something else, blackout city, fake army, city of Alexandria

who leads charge off the beach

Cota

opinion of german soldiers posted in Normandy

Easy defence with no threat

1500 bullets a minute

MG42 fires _____

Salerno (Invasion of Italy)

Rommel arrived in Normandy and compared to beaches of

15

age of virgil mounts

3700, 1 every 2 yards

amount of obsticles

why did allied heavy bombers delay the bombs

avoid hitting allied ships bc of heavy cloud cover

bangalore torpedoes were used for

blasting barbed wire

Like nearly everyone in the landing, D Day is Hal's

first action, omaha beach

mannequin parachutist with bombs were to

fool germans to thinking it was an attack, first wave

101st Airborne

group of 13,000 paratroopers

what caused people to drown

heavy equipment and sea sickness

Star of david on his back, jewish star

how Baumgarten choose his religion

How do they escape the landing craft without being shot

jump over the side

water brings bullet to a standstill in

less than 1 yard

why does rommel flood fields in Normandy

make it more difficult for allied airborne troops to operate behind beaches

27

of 29 DD tanks ___ sunk

when rangers finally reached the top they found

pile of telegraph poles

how did artist robert douin provide info to allies prior to d day

secretly mapped the entire Normandy region

how did germans deal with members of the french resistance

shot them

problem DD tanks faced

waves were 6 ft high

why did rocket powered grapnel hooks not work

wet made it slow