Why Is D-Day Important
Sean Humphrey 12/21/2016 Gateway Narrative, research paper - WWII (D-Day)
WWII was a global event that took place from 1939 to 1945. One of the turning points of the war was D-Day. Which was on June 6th 1944 and it may have ended on June 30th 1944. “On D-Day, over 4,400 Allied soldiers died, as did between 4,000 and 9,000 German soldiers. This battle was the start of the larger campaign of the Battle of Normandy, which led to 425,000 killed, injured or missing soldiers.” (refrence.com) Planning for D-Day may have had been began in sometime in 1943. The war had millions of people fighting in it and at least “220,000 troops from every continent of the world (Badsey, 28).
Also during the wars women actually started to play a much bigger role in society such as having factory jobs and other jobs in society” (Badsey, 29). The jobs that the women had gotten actually helped the people who were at war in many different ways (Badsey, 29). D-Day had a lot of planning before it had actually even taken place. It had started to be planned at least one to two years before it took place. For example they needed things such as food, water, ammunition, weapons, medical, and many other supplies were needed before they were able to launch operation D-Day. The reason that it took one to two years for D-Day to actually even …show more content…
The German people expected this to be the decisive battle, and if they could beat the Allies they might be able to win the war. The Red Army launched a major offensive in late June which wiped out the Germans Army Group Centre, and the French divisions would have arrived too late to help. However, they would have been able to stop the Russians from advancing further than they actually did.” -("BBC IWonder - How Close Did D-Day Come to Failure?" BBC News. BBC, n.d. Web. 09 Feb.
WWII was a global event that took place from 1939 to 1945. One of the turning points of the war was D-Day. Which was on June 6th 1944 and it may have ended on June 30th 1944. “On D-Day, over 4,400 Allied soldiers died, as did between 4,000 and 9,000 German soldiers. This battle was the start of the larger campaign of the Battle of Normandy, which led to 425,000 killed, injured or missing soldiers.” (refrence.com) Planning for D-Day may have had been began in sometime in 1943. The war had millions of people fighting in it and at least “220,000 troops from every continent of the world (Badsey, 28).
Also during the wars women actually started to play a much bigger role in society such as having factory jobs and other jobs in society” (Badsey, 29). The jobs that the women had gotten actually helped the people who were at war in many different ways (Badsey, 29). D-Day had a lot of planning before it had actually even taken place. It had started to be planned at least one to two years before it took place. For example they needed things such as food, water, ammunition, weapons, medical, and many other supplies were needed before they were able to launch operation D-Day. The reason that it took one to two years for D-Day to actually even …show more content…
The German people expected this to be the decisive battle, and if they could beat the Allies they might be able to win the war. The Red Army launched a major offensive in late June which wiped out the Germans Army Group Centre, and the French divisions would have arrived too late to help. However, they would have been able to stop the Russians from advancing further than they actually did.” -("BBC IWonder - How Close Did D-Day Come to Failure?" BBC News. BBC, n.d. Web. 09 Feb.