Test Your D-Day Knowledge!!!!!

[lcm1]

Originally Posted by Desiree Clary

“ Bonus Question: How is June 6,1944 is marked out as "D-Day." How is this different from the others (since D-Day is used to designate the day of an attack.)?”
Now that’s a good one and nobody so far as I can see answered this back ’04. Any takers?As I understand this, it was standard Allied terminology to designate an attack day as "D-Day," but after the Normandy Invasion it was changed and left "D-Day" to refer only to that glorious event.

Probably DC,because it was intended to represent the first letter of Deliverance Day,which was June the 6th. (From a silly old fart!) lcm1

[lcm1]

Originally Posted by Jack Torrance

The answer to one of the questions. But which one!

Don't wait for an answer to that from me mate I'm just one of the silly buggers that was far to busy at the time. lcm1

[lcm1]

Originally Posted by skiplc

To me Ken, that means everything. Certainly more than some trivia question that was assembled long after you punched your way into France.



By the way, thank you for not requiring me to speak german all my life.

I tell you what Skip,I am not one to 'shoot the s**t' about things relating to what I have done,but after your original comment I am going to thump what I DO know into you!! lcm1

[skiplc]

Thump away Marine. I'm writing a 'thank you' letter to a USN sailor who will be visiting our WWII memorial Tuesday. Mere words can't express my thanks to you fine men.

[Jack Torrance]

Originally Posted by tigersqn

Round-up



Anvil then Dragoon




Lt Gen Miles Dempsey

Hmm..., I was thinking of Sledgehammer but Round-Up is just as good an answer if not better. Anvil and Dempsey are both correct.

It's funny how little attention Dempsey has received when compared to his peer Omar Bradley. Dempsey was really overshadowed by his and Bradley's superior Montgomery. Very much like Meade has when Grant parked his HQ with the Army of the Potomac.

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Originally Posted by Jack Torrance

Dempsey was really overshadowed by his and Bradley's superior Montgomery. Very much like Meade has when Grant parked his HQ with the Army of the Potomac.

I can't see Miles Dempsey winning Gettysburg if he swapped places with Meade, Jack!

Unfortunately, Dempsey wasn't a great general, only getting the gig because Monty didn't want Kenneth Anderson (he of Tunisia infamy) to be in charge of a D-Day army.

A similar situation existed with 'Harry' Crerar and the First Canadian Army. Crerar was another dour, unimaginative figure who had to be kept on a fairly tight leash (and Montgomery would have preferred one of the corps commanders, Guy Simonds, but this was a national/political decision).

Fighting towards Falaise, Monty wrote: "Harry Crerar is fighting his first battle and it is the first appearance in history of a Canadian Army HQ. He is desperately anxious it should succeed. He is so anxious that he worries himself all day. I go and see him a lot and calm him down. He will be much better when he realizes that battles seldom go completely as planned, that great patience is required, that you keep on at it until the other chap cracks, and that if you worry you will eventually go mad! He seemed to have gained the idea that all you want is a good initial fire plan, and then the Germans all run away!"