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
