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{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
May 03 2008 04:02 GMT
#1
So I was browsing Wikipedia and happened upon the Invasion of Normandy and there is a discussion on if Normandy was actually the largest seaborne invasion:

That's what it says in the article, yet it states that some 156,000 troops crossed the channel during the invasion. But according to the Battle of Okinawa article, that operation involved a stupendous 1,300 ships and over half a million troops - and this was an operation carried out thousands of miles from home base, whereas the invasion of Normandy was carried out over a mere twenty miles of water.

So was Normandy really the largest sea invasion ever? The source given for the claim looks pretty dubious too. Gatoclass (talk) 14:42, 25 January 2008 (UTC)



So would the invasion of Okinawa be the largest and if so why do scholars still credit Normandy for the largest seaborne invasion?

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EmeraldSparks
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States1451 Posts
May 03 2008 04:07 GMT
#2
D-Day took place in one day. The Battle of Okinawa took place over eighty-seven, with landings staggered.
But why?
B1nary
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada1267 Posts
May 03 2008 04:08 GMT
#3
I believe 156000 is only the initial landings at the beaches. If I remember correctly, about 1.5 million troops were ferried across in total.
RoadTrippin
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States48 Posts
May 03 2008 04:36 GMT
#4
The 156,000 troops invasion is the estimation for D-Day landing. The whole Normandy invasion lasted twenty-some days and transported more than 850,000 troops, I think.

Not real sure of Okinawa, but according to your quote, over half a million troops landed which is smaller than the 850,000 troops in Normandy. So, technically Normandy is the largest amphibious invasion.
Piano
Profile Joined June 2007
Korea (South)401 Posts
May 03 2008 04:38 GMT
#5
normandy is the largest amphibious operation in history hands down, with the most ships at sea to transport troops.
Yogurt
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States4258 Posts
May 03 2008 06:25 GMT
#6
anyone know why its called D-day?
ok dont not so good something is something ok ok ok gogogo
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51439 Posts
May 03 2008 06:45 GMT
#7
On May 03 2008 15:25 Yogurt wrote:
anyone know why its called D-day?


i think its because it was the break or make day in ww2.
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Last Romantic
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States20661 Posts
May 03 2008 07:21 GMT
#8
On May 03 2008 15:25 Yogurt wrote:
anyone know why its called D-day?


Standard military terminology of the time meant D-Day was the hour of operation; H-Hour was hour of operation, etcaetera.

It's just entered into the vernacular as referring to the initial day of the Normandy landings during WW2.
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Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
May 03 2008 08:46 GMT
#9
Deliverance-Day.
minus_human
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
4784 Posts
May 03 2008 10:21 GMT
#10
On May 03 2008 17:46 Slayer91 wrote:
Deliverance-Day.

or Disembark Day?
In Romanian it's called "Z-Day" actually, I don't know exactly why, perhaps because the war was ending? (and Z is the last letter). I do know however that the war still ensued for a good period of time, until the troops reached Berlin.
chiflutz
Profile Joined June 2006
Romania1025 Posts
May 03 2008 10:25 GMT
#11
LR's got it right. In Romanian it's called "Z Day" because "zi" means "day". Same principle.
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