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The Price of Freedom
Many came … some had to stay.Approximately 150,000 men landed on the beaches of Normandy on D Day, June 6th, 1944. Approximately 4,500 were killed and another 5,000 wounded or missing. The overall casualty rate was 7%, with by far the highest losses suffered by...
Firefight at Stützpunkt One-Oh
The D Day landings involved over 150,000 Allied soldiers and over 50,000 German defenders. Let’s look at what D Day was like for just 177 of those men… The coast of Normandy was heavily defended by a series of fortified positions and strongpoints, known to the German...
The Battles of the Generals
SHAEF vs OB West The Battles of the GeneralsPatton, Bradley and MontgomeryVon Rundstedt and RommelD Day was fought between the Allied soldiers landing on the beaches and the German Wehrmacht soldiers manning the Atlantic Wall. Many thousands died. But the nature of...
The D Day Beaches
The price of freedom “Two kinds of people are staying on this beach: the dead and those who are going to die. Let's get the hell out of here!”—Colonel George Taylor, 16th Infantry Regiment On June 6th, 1944, American, British, and Canadian forces landed on the beaches...
D is for Deception & Disguise
The tangled web of lies that fooled Hitler The story of D Day is a story of selfless bravery, brilliant planning, and superb logistics—but also the story of a complex set of tricks and fakes which confused the enemy and contributed greatly to the successful invasion....
D-Day 80 Years On
Men of the 2nd Ranger Battalion on the heights of Pointe Du Hoc on the afternoon of D DayParatroopers of the British 6th Airborne Division before takeoff on the night before D DayThe Boys of Pointe Du Hoc & The Ox & Bucks at the Pegasus Bridge At each end of...