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Operation: Overload
Introduction: Destination-Day, D-day, was a very historical battle. It consisted of over 320,000 troops and 54,000 vehicles landed on the beach by water, air, and ground, and that’s only from the Allies! D-Day was one of the largest land, water, and air battles in history.
Questions: 1. Why do they call it Destination-Day? 2. Which beach was the toughest beach to defeat the Germans on? 3. What happened to the parachutes? 4. Why is this important to Canadians?
I don’t know why they called June, 11, 1944 Destination-Day, it may be because they were to meet at a destination on the day they were to defeat the Germans. The Allies flew over 11,000 planes on D-Day, about 127 were lost.
I would say that Omaha beach was the biggest, and hardest to take from the Germans. The Allies landed 34,000 troops at the end of the day, 2400 were lost. The Germans had many tough defenses. The Germans stacked the beach full of mines. The Germans had 5 major strongholds on Omaha beach were called Widerstandsnester. Most of the Allies tanks sank in the water of the channel. Omaha beach was over 6 miles long, wow! The battle for Omaha beach did not go good for the Allies.
What happened to the parachutes was simply, pretty bad weather. Most of the parachutes failed for that reason. Some soldiers were killed before they landed. Other soldiers landed to 35 miles away from there destination to land. Very few were even close to there target.
D-Day is a very important event to Canadians because they had 3 different kinds of bombers in D-Day, they were Handley page, Halifax Vickers, Wellington and Lancaster, and many more planes involved in D-Day. More than 11,000 planes were flown that day, not all by Canadians but still, Canadians should be proud!
Conclusion: The most exciting thing that I learned in doing D-Day for heritage fair is that many people died for the freedom of there country and for the freedom of many different religious people. Omaha, Utah, Gold, Sword, and Juno were the 5 beches that were used in D-Day.
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For internet recourses I used:
1. http://techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us/spring4/battles/dday.htm, and
2. http://www.ddaymuseum.co.uk/faq.htm.
For people I asked:
1. Jordan Morris 7/8 W.
2. Mrs. Nicholson. Social Teacher
Resource books I used:
1. Chronicle of Canada book on page 706 Author: unknown Copyright: 1990
2. World War 2 book on pages 261 – 273 Author: Ivor Matanle Copyright: 1989
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