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June 06, 2007
Today in History: June 6th
From This Day in History: History.com
1944: Allies invade France
On this day in 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, the Allied invasion of northern France.
By daybreak, 18,000 British and American parachutists were already on the ground. At 6:30 a.m., American troops came ashore at Utah and Omaha beaches. At Omaha, the U.S. First Division battled high seas, mist, mines, burning vehicles—and German coastal batteries, including an elite infantry division, which spewed heavy fire. Many wounded Americans ultimately drowned in the high tide. British divisions, which landed at Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches, and Canadian troops also met with heavy German fire, but by the end of the day they were able to push inland.Finish reading the article.
Books and videos found in the GSU Library on D-Day:
Title: The greatest thing we have ever attempted : historical perspectives on the Normandy campaign / contributors, Stephen E. Ambrose ... [et al.] ; edited by Steven Weingartner.
Call Number: D756.5.N6 G741998
Title: British W.W. II documentaries [videorecording]
Call Number: DA587 .B74xVIDEORECORD535
Websites with information about D-Day:
American Experience: D-Day
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/
National D-Day Memorial Foundation
http://www.dday.org/
Untold Stories of D-Day@National Geographic Magazine http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0206/feature1/
D Day: Table of Contents
http://www.aero-web.org/history/wwii/d-day/toc.htm
D-Day: Operation Overlord - Features on thehistorychannel.co.uk
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/features/d-day.php
Military History Online - D-Day June 6, 1944
http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/dday/
Posted by d-nadler at June 6, 2007 02:28 PM