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    D-DAY IMAGE

    This image always captures the terror as the ramp comes down and a Germanicon MMG team have the bead on the men behind it

    LEST WE FORGET - 75 YEARS AGO

    On D-Day, the Allies landed 156,000 troops in Normandy.
    The American forces landed numbered 73,000: 23,250 on Utah Beach, 34,250 on Omaha Beach, and 15,500 airborne troops.

    In the Britishicon and Canadianicon sector, 83,115 troops were landed (61,715 of them British): 24,970 on Gold Beach, 21,400 on Juno Beach, 28,845 on Sword Beach, and 7900 airborne troops.
    11,590 aircraft were available to support the landings.
    On D-Day, Allied aircraft flew 14,674 sorties, and 127 were lost.

    In the airborne landings on both flanks of the beaches, 2,395 aircraft and 867 gliders of the RAF and USAAF were used on D-Day.

    Operation Neptune involved huge naval forces, including 6,939 vessels: 1,213 naval combat ships, 4,126 landing ships and landing craft, 736 ancillary craft and 864 merchant vessels. Some 195,700 personnel were assigned to Operation Neptune: 52,889 US, 112,824 British, and 4,988 from other Allied countries.

    By the end of 11 June (D + 5), 326,547 troops, 54,186 vehicles and 104,428 tons of supplies had been landed on the beaches.

    As well as the troops who landed in Normandy on D-Day, and those in supporting roles at sea and in the air, millions more men and women in the Allied countries were involved in the preparations for D-Day. They played thousands of different roles, both in the armed forces and as civilians.

    GOD BLESS THEM ALL
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    'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA

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    The organisation of the whole operation is staggering; from the Mulberry harbour and the Pipe Line Under The Ocean (PLUTO) to supply fuel. Men, material by boat etc.
    Bringing it all together to maintain momentum was an incredible acheivement.

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