WHY WERE PARATROOPERS USED DURING D-DAY??
This was the largest invasion in World War 2.
This was the largest invasion in World War 2.
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Paratroopers were to play a decisive part in World War Two. Paratroopers were vital in the German attack on Crete, the initial attacks by the Allies at D-Day and they played an important role in the Allies failed attack on Arnhem. The Americans launched a huge invasion against Germany. The allies weren't the only ones to use paratroopers. The Germans attacked used paratroopers in Crete. In the attack on the Netherlands, German paratroopers played a major role isolating the city of The Hague and in Belgium, they seized vital bridges and took a strategic fort at Eben Emael. The axis powers never expected such a huge invasion on d-day. Especially since they were fooled. There was no way for the axis powers to stop the allies from pushing the Germany. They could try to hold them off for as long as they could but it was only a matter of time before the allies to break enemy lines. Airborne soldiers at D-Day took disproportionately high casualties compared to the beach landings (with the exception ofOmaha) while the airborne attack on Arnhem proved to be a failure. The success of the Allies in using parachute regiments to capture airstrips in Burma was only due to the involvement of ground forces as well as airborne troops. In the western sector of Europe, the speed of the Allies advance was such that the time to plan and co-ordinate a massed airborne raid was never available.
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The Americans fooled the Germans by landing on a different day and at a different location. Planning for the operation began in 1943. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception, codenamed Operation Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings. Some of the paratroopers had their guns blown of their legs due to the plane moving so fast. They hand to land and escape being shot at by Germans. They needed to get to their target to regroup with their units. The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations on 6 June 1944 (termedD-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the invasion of German-occupied western Europe and contributed to an Allied victory in the war. This was a key part for the Allies to end the war. They needed to liberate all of Germany. The Soviets came from the East and the Americans/British from the West. Hitler wanted to avoid a two-front war. It was un-winnable. The amphibious landings were preceded by extensive aerial and naval bombardment and an airborne assault—the landing of 24,000 British, US, and Canadian airborne troops shortly after midnight.
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The day that 150,000 Allied soldiers landed on the shores of Normandy was certainly decisive. And with ships, landing craft and planes leaving port by the tens of thousands for a hostile shore, it is no wonder that some would call it "disembarkation" or "departed." I believe D-Day meant that the war was soon going to be over. The allies were too strong there was no way that they could be stopped. Germany was fighting a two-front war because the Soviets were coming one way and America/Britain were pushing through the other way. The Germans were being hammered in Normandy due to bombs non-stop. The 5000-vessel armada stretched as far as the eye could see, transporting over 150,000 men and nearly 30,000 vehicles across the channel to the French beaches. Six parachute regiments -- over 13,000 men -- were flown from nine British airfields in over 800 planes. More than 300 planes dropped 13,000 bombs over coastal Normandy immediately in advance of the invasion. There were be a lot of allied losses but it was the risk they were willing to take. Men were heavily trained jump from planes and fight in combat. Test runs were being done over and over so they could be flawless and land without dying. By nightfall on June 6, more than 9,000 Allied soldiers were dead or wounded, but more than 100,000 had made it ashore, securing French coastal villages. And within weeks, supplies were being unloaded at UTAH and OMAHA beachheads at the rate of over 20,000 tons per day.