D-day

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Normandy assault, the movement of the armada across the English Channel, and the battle for the beaches.
The fifth term sometimes used when talking about is The Atlantic Wall. The Atlantis Wall was the German�s first line of defense in the west, which was along the English Channel coast of France. The wall was only partly completed by June of 1944. It had many guns placed on it, beach obstacles, and mine fields. The part of the wall directly across from England and manned by Field Marshal Rammel's seventeenth and eighteenth armies containing thirty-seven divisions.
Another word people use when they talk about is landing craft. There are six different types of landing craft used on . The first type is LCVP, which stands for Landing Craft Vechile and Personal; it took thirty-two men ashore. The second type is LCA, which stands for Landing Craft Assault; it was and armored wooden craft, which delivered troops. The third type is LCI, which stands for Landing Craft ...

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of the Allied numbers for D-day. There were two million tons of supplies and weapons, and mountains of food all used on D-day. There were one thousand five hundred tanks for two divisions. Also there were five thousand three hundred ships and landing craft. All the fighting was not on the ground either. There were twelve thousand airplanes and twenty thousand air troopers.
There were many different types of weapons used on D-day. The Allies used mainly jeeps, C-47 transports, Sherman tanks, and two and half trucks. For the most part the Allies mounted machine guns on their vechiles. The Germans used mainly machine guns, panther tanks, antitank guns, and MK IV tanks.
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