D-Day Flashcards
What is D-Day?
The Invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe by the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.
What will start the eventual end of Hitler?
D-Day
What does D-Day mean?
Decision day
What was the key to invasion?
Deception
What was made out of balloons?
Fake tanks and trucks
What were real tanks covered up by?
Fake commercial trucks
The real army was ______?
Concealed.
What were paratroopers?
People who jumped out of planes.
What was the plan for the paratroopers?
They would board gliders and be dropped behind enemy lines at night.
What were paratrooper’s missions?
To destroy bridges, break power lines, and blow up Nazi telephone lines.
What was loaded into the bombs?
Pieces of metal.
What happened on June 6th, 1944?
American, British, and Canadian troops board 2000+ ships and head across.
What are some things America had to deal with?
Machine gun bunkers, land mines, metal hedgehogs, barbwire, romell, and running up hills of sand in 80+ of equipment.
What was America’s strategy?
Take out the gun turrets and get off the beach before the tanks roll in.
Why do the tanks never roll in?
Hitler was waiting for the second fake invasion to occur.
