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D-Day: The Normandy Landing
To What extent was D-day the most significant turning point of World War 2?
The Normandy landings( also known as D-day) was an attack that took place at June 6th 1944, it was suppose to be happen at June 5th but it was delayed a day because of weather at sea. The operation happened in 2 stages, the airborne attack (air forced) and the amphibious attack (mixture of land and sea). The Paratroopers used in the airborne, it was something that was never used in warfare before witch meant it was a risk to use. Guys who got who put parachutes were jumped out of some planes and landed behind enemy lines.24,000 British , Canadian, America and some French took part in this invasion. The Amphibious attack got on ships and landed in France at around
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A lot of soldiers were sleeping when there suddenly some explosions and gunfire everywhere. The soldiers get up and go to their post to try kill the Japanese most likely to be very little protective gear like they would have if they had time to prepare or knew that the Japanese were coming. The American Aircraft were parked tightly meaning getting them in the air would take time and guns had no ammo in it because it isn’t loaded giving the japans a massive advantage. At the time America was not in the War they were giving some help to allies but the Japanese was the thing that brought the USA in to the war. Before this America some people were anti war over the next couple of days men signed up to fight in the war. The Japanese casualties rate was incredible lower than the USA the Japanese won the attack on Pearl Harbour but i think that attacking Pearl Harbour caused the Japanese to lose the war because if America was never involved in World war 2 they wouldn’t have a greater chance of killing enemies. Pearl Harbour is significant because they gave so much man power and resources to their allies. If USA was never in he War then the outcome of D-day would be very different since 90,000 of the soldiers involved in D-day were American, although if the USA wasn’t involved in D-day the allies may still have a chance of taking Berlin but the War would of lasted longer. The USA was one of the most powerful counties in the world, before the Americans entered the war the Germans were considered ahead and winning the war so far. England fought extremely well to defend their country and winning many battles but Hitler was very strong and England would have surrender over some time, but when the USA joined the War it turned everything around .In only 3 years, their Enemy was defeated and the War was over which is why I

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