11-09-2007, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Kyt  Nice idea for a thread, Spidge. And I hope people remember to include the Navy(s) and Air Force(s) units too.
To kick off here are the names of the Royal Navy personnel killed on D-Day and the week after: http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1944-06JUN1.htm
I had never realised how many Royal Navy Commandoes had been killed on the day itself. | The naval component of the operation, "NEPTUNE", comprised large numbers of warships, auxiliaries and landing craft. In all, 1,213 warships were provided for the invasion. Their main task was to provide shore bombardment firepower for the troops going ashore, to guard the transports, and to conduct minesweeping and antisubmarine patrols on the flanks of the invasion corridor. The navies also provided 4,126 amphibious craft, including a variety specialized landing craft, such as LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank), LCIs (Landing Craft, Infantry), and LCTs (Landing Craft, Tank [Rocket]). More than 3,500 of these landing craft were actually used during the Normandy Invasion. These amphibious craft would provide the crucial troop-carrying capacity to land the thousands of men, vehicles, and artillery along the 50-mile wide target area in the Bay of the Seine.
Hundreds of antisubmarine escorts and patrol planes protected the flanks of the assault convoys. Allied gunfire support task groups began bombarding prearranged targets along the beaches in support of the landings.
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------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."
(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)
What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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